Dhubri:AIUDF's Badruddin Ajmal is trailing by 98,373 votes as early trends indicates on Tuesday. Unlike the other seat, Dhubri, a minority dominated seat of lower Assam is witnessing a battle where the NDA is not a front runner. In fact, the state CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, on several occasions hinted that this is perhaps the seat they are not eyeing for.
Though the NDA has given the seat to ally Asom Gana Parishad, it is not where they are ahead of the rivals. The most challenging thing is to hand over a defeat to Badruddin Ajmal who is considered a face of minority voters and has capitalised on the same to get elected to Parliament three times in a row. However this time Congress have migrated Rakibul Hussain, all the way from Samaguri, a middle Assam assembly seat holder and well known minority leader of the party and pitted him against the AIUDF supremo. Ajmal who is eyeing a 4th straight term defeated his nearest opponent, Abu Taher Bepari of the Congress by a margin of 2,26,528 votes back in 2019.