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RANGPUR, Oct 19, 2025 (BSS) - Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami central executive council member ATM Azharul Islam said the signing of the July Charter is a landmark event in the history of the country. 

"Through signing this, the people will regain their lost voting rights," he said in a street rally organized by Kursha Union Jamaat-e-Islami at Beltoli Medical Mour in Taraganj upazila of Rangpur on Saturday night as the chief guest.
 
ATM Azharul Islam, also former acting secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, said that India has turned the northern region into a waterless desert area by building the Farakka Barrage on the Padma and the Gajoldoba Barrage on the Teesta. 

"If the people give Jamaat-e-Islami the responsibility of running the state in the future and if I am elected, I will play a leading role in the development of the whole area," he said.

"Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami will honestly protect the people's trust in the society and the state in the way Allah Almighty has directed," ATM Azhar added.

He further said that the previous fascist Awami League regime wanted to stay in power by indiscriminately killing and torturing many scholars, youth, women and children of the country. Today, the country is free from oppression in exchange for the blood of students and the public.

Earlier, ATM Azharul Islam spoke at a separate street rally organized by the Kursha Union Women Jamaat-e-Islami at the Rahimapur Madrasa ground of the union in the upazila in the afternoon. 

President of the Kursha Union Jamaat-e-Islami Mohammad Mohsenul Haque presided over both the street rallies. 

In these rallies, Jamaat-e-Islami's Badarganj Upazila Nayeb Ameer Shah Muhammad Rustam Ali, Taraganj Upazila Jamaat-e-Islami's Ameer SM Alamgir Hossain, Upazila Secretary Maulana Yakub Ali, Union Secretary Maulana Al Amin, among others, spoke.