Overview
- Ajmal defeated Assam Jatiya Parishad’s Rejaul Karim Choudhury by 35,380 votes in Binnakandi, taking 119,721 votes to 84,341.
- The AIUDF chief sought a return to state politics after losing the Dhubri Lok Sabha seat in 2024, casting this race as a homecoming.
- Binnakandi is a new constituency carved from the erstwhile Jamunamukh seat in the 2023 delimitation, an area long tied to the Ajmal family.
- On the trail, Ajmal stressed protecting minority political identity and pushed a Hojai-focused development plan built on education and the agarwood industry.
- The result gives AIUDF a fresh foothold as it contests these assembly elections outside the Congress-led alliance.