Badruddin Ajmal is the president of the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) and a three-time (2009, 2014 and 2019) Member of Parliament from the Dhubri Lok Sabha constituency in Assam. Apart from being a politician, he is also an established businessman, industrialist, philanthropist and social worker.
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Badruddin Ajmal was born in Ali Nagar village located in Hojai district of Assam. His full name is Badruddin Ajmal Qasmi. There is confusion regarding the official date of his birth. According to one source, he was born on Sunday, February 12, 1950 (age 70; as of 2020); However, according to another source, his year of birth is 1956 (age 66 as of 2020). Ajmal completed his Fazil-e Deoband (equivalent Masters degree in Islamic Theology and Arabic) from Darul Uloom Deoband, UP and joined his family business in 1975.
family and caste
Ajmal belongs to a wealthy business family of the Muslim community.
parents and siblings
Badruddin’s father, Haji Ajmal Ali, was a rice farmer who left for Mumbai in 1951 and became a perfumer. Later, Haji Ajmal Ali founded his own perfume company called “Ajmal Perfumes”, which was taken over by his sons after his death.
Ajmal Perfumes founder Haji Ajmal Ali
Maulana Badruddin Ajmal has four siblings: Mohammad Amir Uddin Ajmal Ali, Mohammad Sirajuddin Ajmal (former MP), Fakhruddin Ajmal and Abdullah Ajmal.
Abdullah Ajmal
Fakhruddin Ajmal
Maulana Badruddin along with his brother Mohammad Sirajuddin Ajmal submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Modi highlighting several issues related to Assam.
wife and children
Badruddin Ajmal married Rezwana Ajmal on December 30, 1979. The couple has seven children: six sons and one daughter. His two sons, Abdur Rahim Ajmal and Abdur Rehman Ajmal are also active in politics.
Maulana Badruddin Ajmal with his son Maulana Abdur Rahim Ajmal after casting his vote in the Assam Panchayat Elections 2018
Abdur Rehman Ajmal son of Maulana Badruddin Ajmal
Career
as a politician
In 2005, he formed a political party called the Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF), which was later renamed the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) before the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. In 2006, he was elected as a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly simultaneously from two constituencies – South Salmara and Jamunamukh. In total, his party managed to win 10 seats in the first elections. It was a big breakthrough for Badruddin Ajmal who was not even recognized by the then Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi before the elections. Then in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, Badruddin Ajmal won from the Dhubri Lok Sabha seat, defeating the incumbent INC MP Anowar Hussain.
All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) chief Badruddin Ajmal will file his nomination to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Dhubri constituency.
Performance of AIUDF in various elections
Since then, it has managed to retain the Dhubri seat in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Assam has 14 Lok Sabha seats and Ajmal’s party AIUDF won 3 of them. After that, his stature in Assam and the politics of the country strengthened.
as a businessman
There is no doubt that the Ajmal political party is the third most important link in Assamese politics; However, his identity is not only because of politics. He runs the world famous perfume company “Ajmal Perfumes”. In 2011, the company announced that the turnover amounted to 100 GEL. 1475 crores. Moreover, his business is not limited to perfumes but extends from real estate to leather industry, tea production, health services and education.
Perfume baron Badruddin Ajmal
Philanthropy
- He is the president of Markazul Ma’arif, a non-governmental organization that runs schools, hospitals, orphanages with the sole motto of striving to uplift the economically and educationally deprived section of society. In addition, the NGO promotes many other social, educational and economic development activities in various parts of India. Since its inception in 1982, the organization has done tremendous work for the people in the areas of poverty, illiteracy and basic immunization, especially in Assam and other North Eastern states.
- He is the Managing Trustee of Haji Abdul Majid Memorial Public Trust, Hojai. The trust is best known for building the Haji Abdul Majid Memorial Hospital and Research Center in Hojai, Assam.
- He is also the head of Jamiat Ulama-e-Assam of Assam and Tanzim Madaris-e Quamia – the All Assam Non-Government Madrasah Council, which prepares the syllabus and conducts examinations for over 400 madrasas in the state. He is also associated with a number of other schools, madrassas and orphanages as chairman or secretary in various parts of North East India.
- He is the Chairman of the Markazul Maarif Education and Research Center (MMERC), Mumbai – an institution that caters to the modern needs of madrasa graduates by teaching English and also promotes research work in socio-religious and economic fields. In 2006, the Ajmal family came up with another noble idea and promoted women’s higher education in Assam through the ‘Mariam Ajmal College of Science and Technology for Women’ at Hojai. Note: In addition to all the above associations, it is associated with several other socio-economic organizations and non-governmental agencies.
Children always feel happy when they receive a new dress from their parents, but children who have lost their parents feel deprived of this moment. Today I feel inner happiness by inviting the orphan students of Ajmal Modern Residential School to Ajmal House and providing them with new dresses. pic.twitter.com/0RRSXHaXya
— Maulana Badruddin Ajmal (@BadruddinAjmal) March 11, 2020
confrontations
- In December 2017, Badruddin Ajmal insulted and threatened a journalist at a press conference when he was asked whether he would join an alliance with the BJP or the INC. Ajmal received heavy criticism after the incident. Also, the journalist registered an FIR against him, after which Ajmal apologized for his behavior.
#WATCHING AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal in Hatsingimari, Assam threatens to destroy a journalist who asked him whether he will ally with Congress or BJP in future: Go dogs, how much did BJP buy you? Go ahead, I’ll break your head. Go register a case against me. pic.twitter.com/XQvp5mZ4it
— ANI (@ANI) December 26, 2018
- In October 2019, Badruddin Ajmal courted controversy when he bluntly rejected Assam’s two-child policy. She said,
Muslims will continue to have children, they will not listen to anyone. Our religion and I personally believe that whoever wants to come into the world and no one can stop him.
- In November 2020, AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal faced public scorn when several members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released a video claiming that people were raising “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans when they met Badruddin at Silchar Airport. The AIUDF held a press conference on the same day and refuted the claims that it was an attempt by the BJP, along with some media channels, to malign the AIUDF by distorting the actual slogan of ‘Aziz Khan Zindabad’ into ‘Pakistan Zindabad’.
Look at the audacity of these fundamentalist anti-national people shouting PAKISTAN ZINDABAD when they salute MP. @BadruddinAjmal.
This is thoroughly revealing @INCIdia which encourages such forces by creating an alliance. We fight them tooth and nail. Jai Hind 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/CiHZjDweFF
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) November 6, 2020
AIUDF press statement on BJP’s cheap politics, how they along with a section of the media distorted the slogan ‘Aziz Khan Zindabad’ into ‘Pakistan Zindabad’. pic.twitter.com/obzPASSLNg
— AIUDF Official (@AIUDFOfficial) November 6, 2020
- In December 2020, Satya Ranjan Borah, a member of the BJP, filed an FIR against Badruddin’s Ajmal Foundation, a public charity, alleging that the organization received funds from foreign agencies with links to terrorist companies. The complaint is based on a report by the Legal Rights Observatory (LRO), a legal rights organization linked to the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Speaking to a media correspondent, Badruddin Ajmal denied the allegations leveled against Ajmal’s foundation and also denied receiving funds from a foreign agency linked to terrorists. He said the FIR filed against him is part of a political conspiracy hatched by the leader of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma, to discredit him, his party (AIUDF) and the Ajmal Foundation. He also demanded a probe at the highest level to reveal the truth.
Net worth
According to an affidavit filed by Badruddin Ajmal with the Election Commission of India, he has 78 crores as of 2019.
Facts/Trivia
- Ajmal and his three elder brothers were born in his village madrasah.
- He has been named several times in the list of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center (RISSC) for his role in philanthropy, charity and development activities.
- Father of 7 children, Badruddin Ajmal is one of the two members of the Indian Parliament with the most children.
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