Congress alliance associate in Assam AIUDF appears to be working exhausting to show the declare of BJP true that if they arrive to energy, they’ll kind a authorities of Miyas, a time period used to indicate Bangladeshi immigrant Muslims. Such a touch was given by Abdur Rahim Ajmal, the son of AIDUF chief Maulana Badruddin Ajmal, when he claimed that they’ll kind a authorities by males with beard, skullcap and lungi.
Addressing an election marketing campaign rally in Bhabanipur in Assam for occasion candidate Phanidhar Talukdar, Abdur Rahim Ajmal stated in Bengali, ‘this time it will be a government of poor people, it will be a government of men with beard, cap and lungi’.
In one other rally, he claimed that after they kind govt, individuals must respect burkha, beard and skullcap. Campaigning for AIUDF candidate Ashraful Hussain in Chenga constituency, the junior Ajmal stated, ‘Dupatta of our mothers and sisters will have to be respected, the Burkha of our mothers and sisters will have to be respected, our beard and cap will have to be respected’.
Abdur Rahim Ajmal is an AIUDF MLA from Jamunamukh constituency. However, this time Badruddin Ajmal’s brother Sirajuddin Ajmal has been nominated from the seat by AIUDF.
The beard, skullcap, lungi, burkha and so on are generally related to Bangladeshi immigrant Muslims within the state. People from the Assamese Muslim group, descendants of people that have been ethnic Assamese however transformed to Islam centuries in the past, are typically not distinguished by such look and apparel. By repeatedly referring to beard, skullcap, lungi, burkha and so on, Abdur Rahim Ajmal made it clear that ought to the Congress led alliance involves energy after the elections, they’ll kind a authorities comprising of Miya Muslims, and the federal government will work for the advantage of the immigrants from Bangladesh.
This is the second controversy the AIUDF leaders have created on this week. Two days in the past, occasion chief Badruddin Ajmal hat triggered a large controversy by angrily throwing a Gamosa at a celebration employee. The act was broadly condemned within the state, because it was seen as an insult of a cultural image of the state. PM Modi had additionally commented that everybody who loves Assam is harm and indignant after seeing the visuals of Ajmal insulting the Gamosa.
