2 min readGuwahatiOct 30, 2014 10:18 PM IST
First published on: Oct 30, 2014 at 10:18 PM IST
Members of BJP burn the effigy of AIUDF chief Badaruddin Ajmal in Guwahati. (Source: PTI)
An intelligence report supposedly sent to the Centre by a security agency pointing at the alleged role of the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind in recruiting Muslim youths from Assam for jihadi training in Bangladesh has rocked Assam in the past couple of days, with different parties and groups demanding a high-level investigation into the charges.
Groups critical of the AIUDF, whose president and Lok Sabha member Maulana Badruddin Ajmal is also head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind in Assam, have already taken to the streets in protest. Bajrang Dal, a constituent of the sangh parivar meanwhile has called a 12-hour bandh on Friday demanding arrest of Ajmal. The BJP and its other sister groups on the other hand burnt effigies of Ajmal for the second consecutive day on Thursday.
Ajmal meanwhile has denied the allegations and rushed to New Delhi to meet prime minister Narendra Modi and home minister Rajnath Singh and demand a probe on what he described as baseless, unfounded and fabricated allegations that are intended at tarnishing the image of his party as well as himself.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi however said the state government had no such input or report linking Ajmal, AIUDF and Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind to any jihadi organization. “The government does not have any such information,” Gogoi said. State home department officials too denied having any such input, but said security agencies had kept an eye on certain pockets of where jihadi elements had reportedly reached out in the backdrop of the Burdwan incident.
The BJP however has not only hit out at Ajmal on the basis of the purported intelligence report, but also held the ruling Congress party responsible for the rise of fundamental groups in the state. Particularly vocal is Guwahati Lok Sabha member and senior BJP leader Bijoya Chakravarty who said it was because of a weak Congress government in the state that jihadi groups have extended their tentacles to Assam.
Members of BJP burn the effigy of AIUDF chief Badaruddin Ajmal in Guwahati. (Source: PTI)
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