Badruddin Ajmal

Assam Assembly Election 2021: In Barak Valley, Congress battles religious fault lines; local factors bother BJP

Suddenly the Barak Valley has become a difficult terrain for the BJP despite its strong hold in the urban areas

Assam Assembly election 2021: 'Infiltration will be thing of the past if BJP gets another term', says Amit Shah in Tinsukia

Hailing the BJP govt in Assam for running a 'corruption-free' administration for five years, Shah flayed the Congress and said that the party 'can go to any length to win the polls'

Assam Assembly Election 2021: Perfume baron-turned-politician Badruddin Ajmal may play kingmaker

Ajmal has a Fazil-e Deoband (equivalent to a Master's Degree in Islamic Theology and Arabic), is the founding president of the NGO Markazul Ma'arif, and the managing trustee of HAMM Public Trust, Hojai

Abrogation of Articles 370, 35A and NRC dampener pose a dichotomy of citizenship for BJP in Assam, Kashmir

It is ironic that when the Centre hoped that both the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A and publication of the NRC will be a catalyst for it to vigorously push forward its agenda of inclusivity, the situation is actually the other way round in both Kashmir and Assam.

Congress in Assam: Party at risk of being shellacked again if it fails to navigate host of external challenges

Be it the Muslims, tea garden workers or the various Scheduled Tribes in Assam, the Congress no longer has a consolidated voter base to fall back upon.

BJP managed to nullify regionalism, negate citizenship fears among Bengali Hindus by pitting CAB against NRC in Assam

Comfortably in power in the state since 2016, the BJP ran a polarising campaign in the state amid controversial issues of the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Bill.

Exit polls predict growing support for BJP in North East; social engineering, initiation of Naga peace talks may have helped saffron party

Most exit polls announced on Sunday predict gains for the BJP in the North East, which has a total of 25 Lok Sabha seats.

Lok Sabha Election 2019, Assam profile: Dibrugarh, Gauhati, Tezpur key seats in state with BJP seeking to improve tally

Assam, which became the BJP’s gateway to North East after the saffron party came to power for the very first time in 2016, is going to polls in the aftermath of the state-wide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill.

'I will break your head': AIUDF's Badruddin Ajmal abuses journalist, threatens to hit him; scribe registers FIR against lawmaker

AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal on Wednesday verbally abused a journalist who questioned him on next year's general elections and even threatened to break his head, while his supporters forced the scribe to apologise publicly.

Nikah halala challenges husband's manhood, punishes him for giving instant divorce, says AIUDF leader Badruddin Ajmal

Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, a Muslim leader and Lok Sabha MP from Assam, defended the practice of nikah halala saying that the very idea of having to let his wife sleep with another man challenges and hurts the manhood of a husband, and thus prevents him from instantly divorcing his wife