Perfume Baron

The BJP will improve on the number of seats it holds in Assam to offset the outcome in the third phase, which will be held in lower Assam, state minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has told NDTV. In a first, the party has admitted that it might lose seats in lower Assam, which is the stronghold of the Congress and perfume baron Badruddin Ajmal's AIUDF, wh...

Badruddin Ajmal, whose family business of perfumes is more than Rs 2,000 crore, is well-known as perfume king. But in the forthcoming Assembly elections in Assam, he is pitching himself as the kingmaker.

Abdul Hekim, a 49-year-old timber merchant in Rupohi -- barely 150 km from Guwahati -- has been a staunch supporter of perfume king Badruddin Ajmal's All India United Democratic Front or AIUDF. But ahead of the assembly polls in Assam, he is ready to shift his political loyalty.

The Congress has not managed to win a single seat in the elections to the Bodoland Territorial Council, even as the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), the party of perfume baron perfume baron Badruddin Ajmal, scored a handful of seats in its debut election. However, the Bodoland People's Front is expected to retain control of the Council.

The BJP will improve on the number of seats it holds in Assam to offset the outcome in the third phase, which will be held in lower Assam, state minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has told NDTV. In a first, the party has admitted that it might lose seats in lower Assam, which is the stronghold of the Congress and perfume baron Badruddin Ajmal's AIUDF, wh...

Badruddin Ajmal, whose family business of perfumes is more than Rs 2,000 crore, is well-known as perfume king. But in the forthcoming Assembly elections in Assam, he is pitching himself as the kingmaker.

Abdul Hekim, a 49-year-old timber merchant in Rupohi -- barely 150 km from Guwahati -- has been a staunch supporter of perfume king Badruddin Ajmal's All India United Democratic Front or AIUDF. But ahead of the assembly polls in Assam, he is ready to shift his political loyalty.

The Congress has not managed to win a single seat in the elections to the Bodoland Territorial Council, even as the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), the party of perfume baron perfume baron Badruddin Ajmal, scored a handful of seats in its debut election. However, the Bodoland People's Front is expected to retain control of the Council.