All India United Democratic Front

The All India United Democratic Front ( AIUDF ), formerly Assam United Democratic Front ( audf ), is a regional party in the Indian state of Assam.

The Assam United Democratic Front was founded by Badruddin Ajmal 2005. They later changed their name to All India United Democratic Front. The party has its following among the Muslim minority, which makes up around 30 percent of the population in Assam, especially among the Bengali Muslims who are descended from immigrants from Bangladesh. The Muslims of Assam have become since the 1980s repeated victim of xenophobic pogroms by the Assamese majority population. Traditionally, the minorities of Assam have felt represented by the Congress Party, since its inception, it is but the AIUDF managed to gather a large part of the Muslim electorate behind him. In addition, however, the AIUDF sees itself as representing the interests of other disadvantaged minorities of Assam, as the Adivasis who came as workers in the tea plantations of Assam during the colonial period from central India.

2006 audf first came on in elections to the Federal State Parliament of Assam and was immediately ten out of 126 constituencies win. At the all-India general election in 2009, she joined in nine out of 14 constituencies in Assam and has been successful in one. The party founder Badruddin Ajmal took the only deputy of his party in the Lok Sabha ( the lower house of Indian parliament total ) a. At the next federal election in Assam State 2011 AIUDF improved its profit further: they went with 18 deputies in the Parliament and rose to become the second largest party behind the ruling Congress party.