United Minorities Front Assam
The United Minorities Front Assam (UMFA) ( Assamese সংযুক্ত সংখ্যালঘূ মৰ্চা saṃyukta saṃkhyālaghū marcā , "United Front of Minorities") was a party in the Indian state of Assam , which was active between 1985 and 2006.
Party history
On August 15, 1985, the so-called was Assam Agreement ( Assam accord ) between the Indian central government under Rajiv Gandhi and the leaders of the Assam Movement completed. The Assam movement was a political mass movement that took place in Assam from 1979 to 1985 and was primarily directed against illegal immigrants to Assam. The immigrants were mostly Muslim Bengali from neighboring Bangladesh . The 1985 agreement was intended to bring the Assam movement back to rest and provided that immigrants should be recorded systematically. The recently immigrants should be expelled from the country again, the illegal immigrants who have been living in Assam for a long time should not be allowed to vote there for a long time. In addition, the economic neglect of Assam by the central government, lamented by the activists, should be ended.
The spokesmen of the Assam movement were student associations that founded the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) in 1985 as a political arm . The AGP represented an Assamese regionalism and nationalism and acted primarily as a representative of the Assamese- speaking population. The non-Assamese-speaking tribal and mountain peoples of Assam did not feel represented by the AGP. In Bodoland and in the districts of Karbi Anglong and North Cachar Hills , there were separate autonomy movements. In the latter, the Autonomous State Demand Committee was established as a political party in 1986 .
As a reaction to the dominance of the AGP, Abul Fazal Golam Osmani and Hafiz Rashid Ahmed Choudhury founded the United Minorities Front in 1985 , which saw itself as a representative of the interests of the non-Assamese-speaking and, above all, of the Muslim population. In the election to the Parliament of Assam on December 16, 1985 the UMFA was able to win 17 of the 126 seats in the Parliament of Assam. In the subsequent elections to the Parliament of Assam in 1991, 1996 and 2001, its influence with the Assamese (Muslim) electorate quickly waned and the UMFA only won one, two or no mandate. On April 21, 1998, the UMFA was recognized by the Indian Electoral Commission as a federal party in Assam. The party founder Osmani joined the Congress Party before the 1998 general election.
After the Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF) was founded in Assam in 2005 as an alliance of 13 Muslim organizations, the UMFA merged with the AUDF in 2006.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Assam: Election on accord. indiatoday, December 15, 1985, accessed April 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Niru Hazarika: Politics in Assam . The Indian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 55, No. 3 (July - September 1994), pp. 211-220 JSTOR 41855693
- ↑ Alom, Mohammed Fakhrul: Role of muslims in the politics of assam . Dissertation 2007 (Dept. of Political Science, Tilak Maharashtra University)
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- ^ Syed Ahmed: AF Golam Osmani (1933-2009) Obitury. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on April 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Teresa Rehman: Assam Panchayat Elections: Audf All Set to Arrive. (No longer available online.) Tehelka.com, February 3, 2007, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2015 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wasbir Hussain: Assam: If The Hat Fits: that at opposition does not get along Means The Congress gains by default. outlookindia.com, March 27, 2006, accessed April 25, 2015 .
