AIUDF fields Badruddin Ajmal from Nagaon Lok Sabha seat

The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) named party president Mohammed Badruddin Ajmal as its candidate for the October 6 byelection to the Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency in central Assam on Tuesday (September 15, 2026).

His nomination has increased the possibility of a three-way contest in Nagaon, where Muslim voters are in the majority.

Mr. Ajmal, an MLA from central Assam’s Binnakandi constituency and former three-time MP from Dhubri in western Assam, will face former bureaucrat Devasish Sharma of the BJP and former MLA Sibamoni Bora of Congress as his prime rivals. The Trinamool Congress has fielded Abdul Salam.

Reacting to Mr. Ajmal’s nomination, Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi indicated that he did so at the BJP’s bidding. “The AIUDF had another candidate in mind, but it did a rethink after Congress announced its candidate,” he told journalists in Guwahati.