Highlighting the “faster pace” of growth of prominent Muslim leader Maulana Badruddin Ajmal’s AIUDF in Assam, Indian Army chief Bipin Rawat has raised concern over the changing “population dynamics” in the northeastern state.
Speaking at a seminar on ‘North East Region of India — Bridging Gaps and Securing Borders’ on Wednesday, Rawat said Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) was growing at a rapid pace in Assam which is threatening the population dynamics of the northeastern state.
“There is a party called AIUDF… It has grown in a faster than the BJP grew over the years. When we talk of Jan Sangh with two MPs and where they have reached, AIUDF is moving at a faster pace in the state of Assam,” Rawat said.
“We can’t change the population dynamics of Assam anymore,” he added.
The AIUDF is a political party active in the Indian state of Assam and founded in 2005 by industrialist and prominent Muslim leader Ajmal.
A Lok Sabha MP from Dhubri, Ajmal’s party won 13 of the 126 seats in the 2016 Assembly elections.
There is a simmering debate on the growing Muslim population of Assam with an alleged influx of illegal migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.