HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, June 10: AIUDF MLA and party general secretary Aminul Islam resigned from his posts on Monday drawing speculations of resentment in Badruddin Ajmal’s party.
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Islam asserted that since he was one of the front leaders in the Lok Sabha elections, he has resigned taking responsibility for the poll debacle of the party.
However, he rubbished the rumours of him joining Congress or any other party. Meanwhile, another senior AIUDF leader Rafikul Islam said that the party will not accept Islam’s resignation.
“I have been with the AIUDF since its inception in 2005. In the initial days, I was looking after the youth wing and later was shifted to an important post in the organisation. In the last several years, we have fought several elections, however, the results of the just concluded Lok Sabha poll was the worst,” Aminul Islam told reporters here on Monday.
The AIUDF legislator also said that somebody must take the reasonability of the bad performance and he has taken it.
“The party will introspect about the bad show in the LS polls. If I was there, other people could not criticise me and since I have failed to take part in a good position, I must quit the post. I have taken this decision after a major introspection,” he said.
Aminul Islam also dismissed the rumours of him being contacted by Congress to join the party. He mentioned, “I am in AIUDF and I will never leave the party. I am with Badruddin Ajmal. I have from my post of general secretary not from the party.”
Meanwhile, Rafikul Islam said, “We have lost in the polls as a team. Aminul Islam cannot single handedly be held responsible for the poll debacle. The party has not accepted his resignation.”
Notably, AIUDF has failed to open its account this time and all the party candidates lost polls. Since the party was formed in 2005, this is the worst performance of AIUDF in the Lok Sabha elections. The party chief Badruddin Ajmal was also defeated by a whopping margin of more than 10 lakh votes in Dhubri Lok Sabha seat.
