AIUDF will support Yashwant Sinha in the presidential election.

AIUDF will support Yashwant Sinha in the presidential election. The All India United Democratic Front on Sunday announced that it will vote for Yashwant Sinha.

The joint opposition candidate in the presidential election. AIUDF lawmaker Aminul Islam, however, said his party would support the opposition candidate in the July 18 presidential polls. He was “sidelined” during Sinha’s recent visit to Assam.
He said that the name of AIUDF was not in the invitation card sent to the political leaders to meet Sinha.

He said, “Our legislators were not invited to the program held at Srimanta Sankardev Kalakshetra for the opposition nominee in the presidential election.

Sinha visited Assam on July 13 to seek the support of the state’s opposition MPs and MLAs for the elections.
The major non-BJP parties of the country, including the Congress and the TMC.

Congress and TMC have nominated former Union Minister Sinha as their joint candidate for the presidential election and AIUDF will support Yashwant Sinha.

AIUDF Legislative Party Leader Hafiz Bashir Ahmad said, “Our party will vote for Yashwant Sinha in tomorrow’s election for the country’s next president.”
Islam said that the party is supporting Sinha as he is the opposition candidate.

“Undemocratic and communal forces must be stopped. So, we are supporting it,” the AIUDF MLA said.

The Congress and the AIUDF contested the 2021 state elections as part of a ‘grand alliance’ of opposition parties, but later parted ways.

The AIUDF has 15 legislators in the Assam Assembly and one MLA from the state.

Sinha is pitted against BJP-led NDA candidate Draupadi Murmu, who is in the race for the top post.