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SYLHET, Dec 6, 2025 (BSS) – Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr. Shafiqur Rahman today said the elections in February next year must go ahead as planned sounding a note of warning that conspiracy over the polls would not succeed due to people resistance against any such plot.
“Anyone who thinks they can foil the next election will be resisted by the people,” the Jamaat chief told a divisional rally of eight Islamic parties at Sylhet Government Alia Madrasa ground this afternoon.
He added: “If someone imagines they can hijack the polls through an administrative coup out of fear of losing public support, they should know - that era is over.”
Rahman said Bangladesh now witnessed a rising sun to deliver the teachings of the holy Quran.
Chiefs and senior leaders of like-minded Islamic parties also addressed the event.
The Jamaat Ameer said Bangladesh must be freed from “looters” and returned to patriotic citizens in line with the aspirations of the youths who led the last year’s July Uprising.
“The youth have shed blood with a dream. The eight-party alliance fully stands with that dream. Those who oppose the dream will not be forgiven by the people,” he said.
Rahman said the country must move toward a system that would serve workers, boatmen, labourers and students adding since Bangladesh’s independence 54 years ago, the nation had struggled to stand with dignity.
“After foreign aggressors left, internal predators plundered the resources of the people’ . . . smuggled abroad, while the shadow of fascism continued to loom over the country,” he said.
Rahman said one particular group committed wrongdoings and fled the country, while another such group was now following their footprints and added “one group earned public hatred for extortion; another is engaged in even more ruthless extortion”.
“One group tortured, disappeared, killed and exiled people, while the other is following the same path,” he said.
The Jamaat chief called on other Islamic political groups still outside the alliance to join the grouping coming out of “all illusions”.
Islami Andolan Bangladesh Ameer Mufti Rezaul Karim, better known as Charmonai Pir, said the massive turnout in divisional gatherings proved public support for their five-point demands of the eight-party grouping.
“Over a thousand mothers lost their sons on August 5, (2024) many were maimed or lost eyesight . . . they are not safe from those who held the nation hostage,” he added.
The Charmonai Pir said the public had expected reforms and justice after the events of August 5, along with preparations for a fair election “but today we are witnessing obstacles to reforms, obstacles to justice”.
He, however, said anyone conspiring against the nation would be rejected by the people.
Khelafat Majlis Ameer Maulana Mamunul Haque said Islamic movement leaders sacrificed their lives and faced execution but never bowed to injustice.
He alleged that despite the fall of “fascist forces” during the July uprising, “foreign hegemonic interests and their local agents” were attempting to impose a new kind of fascism but “no new fascism will be allowed to take root in Bangladesh”.
The upcoming election is not only about party symbols but a referendum on the implementation of the July Charter,” he said asking the eight-party grouping activists to seek public support for a ‘Yes’ vote for the plebiscite alongside voting for the alliance candidates.
Khelafat Majlis central Ameer Maulana Abdul Basit Azad chaired the rally moderated by Jamaat’s Sylhet City Nayeb-e-Ameer Dr. Nurul Islam Babul.
Those who addressed the event are: Sylhet Metropolitan Jamaat Ameer Fakhrul Islam, Islami Oikya Jote Ameer Maulana Habibullah Miaji, Bangladesh Khelafat Andolon chief Maulana Sarwar Kamal Azizi, JAGPA Vice President Rashed Pradhan and Bangladesh Development Party President Advocate Anwarul Islam Chan.
