Guwahati (Assam) [India], April 20 (HBTV): The All India United Democratic Front’s (AIUDF) General Secretary Aminul Islam on Friday said his party will contest in three constituencies and support other candidates in three more, to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Lok Sabha polls.   

"We want to defeat the BJP, so we are directly contesting in three constituencies and indirectly participating in three other constituencies by supporting someone else," he told ANI.  

Islam said the AIUDF will support the Bodoland People's Front (BPF) candidate in the Darrang-Udalguri Lok Sabha seat, the Trinamool Congress candidate in the Silchar seat, and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate in the Barpeta seat.   

Aminul Islam, an MLA, added that his party was contesting two seats in the second and third phase polls.

"Our party candidates Badruddin Ajmal, Haji Aminul Islam will win from Dhubri and Nagaon Lok Sabha seats and the party candidate will also win in Karimganj seat, which will be held in the last two phases in Assam. The second phase of polls will be held in five parliamentary constituencies - Silchar, Karimganj, Nagaon, Darrang-Udalguri and Diphu seats.” 

‘Our party has decided to extend our support to the BPF candidate in the Darrang-Udalguri seat, and TMC candidate Radheshyam Biswas in the Silchar seat in the second phase of the polls. Our party will also extend support to CPI (M) candidate Manoranjan Talukdar in the Barpeta seat,’ said Islam.  

The AIUDF said Badruddin Ajmal will win with a record margin of votes from Dhubri's seat.

(ANI) This is a syndicated news feed. HBTV has edited it for clarity.