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After announcing his enactment for Humayun Kabir’s Aam Janata Unnayan Party successful West Bengal, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) main Asaduddin Owaisi volition run for the minority-based All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) successful Assam.
This volition beryllium Mr. Owaisi’s archetypal election-related sojourn to the State, which is going to the polls successful a azygous signifier connected April 9.
“He agreed to run for our enactment erstwhile my lad Abdur Rahman went to conscionable him successful Delhi. We are organising astatine slightest 8 run programmes during his sojourn to the State successful the archetypal week of April,” Mohammed Badruddin Ajmal, the AIUDF chief, told The Hindu on Friday (March 27, 2026).
The AIUDF is contesting 30 of Assam’s 126 Assembly seats, mostly successful Muslim-dominated areas. Mr. Owaisi is scheduled to run for Mr. Ajmal, who is contesting the Binnakandi constituency.
AIMIM’s broader outreach successful the eastbound portion of the state is seen arsenic an effort to consolidate number votes successful cardinal constituencies of Assam and West Bengal. Muslims, mostly Bengali-speaking, person been a deciding origin successful astatine slightest 35 constituencies successful Assam earlier the 2023 delimitation exercise.
For the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates, the run by nationalist leaders volition statesman with Union Home Minister Amit Shah connected Saturday (March 28, 2026) followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi a fewer days later.
Mr. Shah is scheduled to enactment successful a roadshow for the BJP’s Guwahati Central campaigner Vijay Gupta. He volition besides run for Ministers Ashok Singhal and Chandra Mohan Patowary, contesting the Dhekiajuli and Tihu seats, respectively.
