AUDF refuses to ally with Cong for polls
A day after Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s olive branch to All-India United Democratic Front for an electoral alliance in the forthcoming Assembly elections, its president and veteran minority leader Badruddin Ajmal outrightly rejected the offer saying that they do not want to associate with a corrupt and anti-Muslim government.
Recalling that the chief minister, who came to power in his first term in 2001 with his support, Mr Ajmal, who is also a MP from Assam told this newspaper, “Till recently
Mr Gogoi has been asking who is Ajmal and with whom his party should have an alliance. What has changed that they want us to have an alliance with them? It’s a planned conspiracy to confuse our party workers.”
The veteran minority leader Mr Ajmal, who is also the president of Assam Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, said his offer of an electoral understanding with his party was an “insult” to him and his party.
Reacting sharply to the remark of Mr Gogoi that he does not have any problem if he (Mr Ajmal) wanted to have any kind of understanding with the Congress, Mr Ajmal said, “Our stand remains the same — no tieup with the Congress or the BJP.”
He also took a dig at chief minister’s offer to AUDF, “Mr Gogoi said he would offer me three to four seats. Am I a beggar?”
Clarifying that he does not have any problem with the UPA, he said, “I am also going to submit a memorandum to Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and senior AICC leaders on prevailing rampant corruption in Assam.”
Mr Ajmal also alleged that the Gogoi-government was one of the most corrupt governments of the country.
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