Express News Service
GUWAHATI: It was not the BJP, but the minority-based All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) which had the best strike rate in the Assam elections.
The party contested 20 seats and won 16 with a strike rate of 80%. The seats were in Bengali-Muslim majority regions of Central and Lower Assam and the Barak Valley of Southern Assam where the party holds sway. In 2016, the AIUDF had contested 73 seats and won 13.
The BJP-Asom Gana Parishad (AGP)-United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL) combine had won 75 of the state’s 126 seats as against 50 by the Congress-led grand alliance of 10 Opposition parties which had the AIUDF, the Bodoland People’s Front (BPF), the Left and some smaller regional parties as components.
Assam: Activist Ashraful Hussain Wins Chenga Seat, Trounces Senior Politicos
The 27-year-old, who has faced the wrath of many for his contribution to Miyah poetry, will be one of the youngest representatives in the upcoming Assam assembly.
Activist Ashraful Hussain after emerging victorious in Chenga assembly segment in Assam. Photo: Facebook.
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Guwahati: Twenty-seven-year-old poet and a social activist Ashraful Hussain, who won the Chenga assembly constituency located in lower Assamâs Barpeta district, is one of the youngest candidates among who either won or contested in the 126-seat Assam state assembly elections.
Hussain is now an elected representative from the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) party.