United Minorities Front, Assam was a regional

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. UMFA was set up in 1985 by the

All Assam Minority Students' Union All Assam Minorities Students' Union (AAMSU) is a student organization from the religious and linguistic minorities communities of Assam. It is fighting for minorities people facing prosecution at the hands of government. The union was formed durin ...

, Citizens Rights Preservation Committee (CRPC) and other religious / linguistic minority people of Assam, as a response to the "Assam Agitation" of

All Assam Students' Union All Assam Students' Union or AASU is a Assamese nationalist students' organisation in Assam, India. It is best known for leading the six-year Assam Movement against Bengalis of both Indian and Bangladeshi origin living in Assam. The leadership, ...

and the signing of the

Assam Accord The Assam Accord was a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) signed between representatives of the Government of India and the leaders of the Assam Movement. It was signed in the presence of the then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in New Delhi on 15 Au ...

. The support of UMFA came mainly from

Bengali Muslims Bengali Muslims ( bn, বাঙালি মুসলমান; ) are adherents of Islam who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis. Comprising about two-thirds of the global Bengali population, they are the sec ...

and

Hindus Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

. The first president of UMFA was Kalipada Sen. The party merged with AIUDF in 2005. On 13 April 2013, the State Executive Committee has been formed in the State Level Conference held at Lengtisingha in the district of

Bongaigaon Bongaigaon () is a major city in the Indian state of Assam. Its urban area spans across Bongaigaon and Chirang district. The city also serves as the gateway of the North-East Frontier Railway Zone with its New Bongaigaon Junction railway sta ...

History

UMFA was formed in the year 1985. It contested in the Assembly and General Election of 1985, and won 17 MLA and 1 MP seats respectively.

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{{Reflist Political parties in Assam Political parties established in 1985 1985 establishments in Assam