AIUDF candidates return to Assam from Covid-hit Raj
Fri, Apr 16 2021 10:29:05 PM
Guwahati, Apr 16 (IANS): After around a week s stay in Rajasthan, the candidates of AIUDF, an ally of the Congress-led Mahajot (grand alliance) in Assam, returned to the northeastern state on Friday following the surge in the number of Covid cases in the Congress ruled desert state.
Sources in the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) said that fearing poaching of their candidates after the counting of votes for Assam Assembly polls on May 2, the party nominees had gone to Rajasthan last week.
However, with the Covid situation worsening in Rajasthan, all the 19 candidates have to come back to Assam now.
AIUDF candidates return to Assam from Covid-hit Raj
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GUWAHATI: The Congress-led grand alliance in Assam on Monday declared it was not only prepared to fend off horse-trading attempts, but also open to taking the support of five-six BJP candidates who had allegedly sent feelers about their plan of action once the poll results are declared.
Karim Uddin Barbhuiya, among the 18 candidates from Badruddin Ajmal s AIUDF whom Congress had reportedly packed off to Jaipur a few days ago, announced his return to Assam by saying the alliance was unbreakable . AIUDF candidates are not scared of horse-trading. We did go to Jaipur together and also visited Ajmer Sharif, but that was only to relax. Our candidates were suffering from fatigue after weeks of campaigning, Barbhuiya told TOI on Monday. My colleagues are still there in Jaipur on their own. Whether they wish to prolong their stay or return is up to them.
GUWAHATI: Congress-led Mahajot allies have said horse-trading attempts would not succeed in impacting the outcome of the just-concluded assembly election.
AIUDF candidate from Sonai, Karim Uddin Barbhuiya, on Monday made a sudden appearance on social media after he silently returned to Assam from Jaipur on Sunday. Barbhuiya’s return is significant not only from the AIUDF’s point of view but from the Mahajot perspective, as he is the coordinator of the grand alliance on behalf of Badruddin Ajmal’s party, a key ally of the Congress for the Assam election.
Even though there are reports of Congress flying out 18 of the 19 AIUDF candidates to Jaipur to ‘keep them away from poachers’, Barbhuiya, after returning, said that their Mahajot is ‘unbreakable’ and even some BJP candidates are in touch with them. They may extend support to the Congress-led alliance for the formation of a non-BJP government in the state, he said.
Congress, AIUDF shift candidates to Rajasthan to foil ‘possible horse-trading’ in Assam
So far 22 candidates of the two parties have been sent to Jaipur
By IANS| Posted by Sameer | Updated: 10th April 2021 11:12 am IST File photo
Guwahati: To avoid “possible horse-trading by the BJP”, the Congress and its ally AIUDF on Friday sent at least 22 of their candidates in the just held Assembly polls to Congress-ruled Rajasthan in a chartered plane, party sources said.
The leaders of the Congress and the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) unofficially told the media that so far 22 candidates of the two parties have been sent to Jaipur and they are now lodged in a private hotel there. “More candidates of the Congress and the AIUDF would be dispatched in the coming days as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party might try for horse-trading after the declaration of the results (on May 2) to remain in power,” a Congress leader said in Guwahati on condition o
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