Shafiqur Rahman, ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami condemned and protested the decision to ban the politics of Jamaat-e-Islami in the meeting of 14-party alliance held at Ganabhaban on Monday.
He termed the decision as illegal and unconstitutional.
In a statement sent to the media on Tuesday, Dr Shafiqur Rahman said that Awami League-led 14-party alliance is a political platform.
A political party or coalition cannot make any decisions about another political party. The law and constitution of Bangladesh have not given this jurisdiction to anyone. If a party or coalition bans another party, one party will continue to ban the other party. Then there will be no such thing as order of the state, he said.
“Jamaate-e-Islami is an established democratic political organization which has participated in all the acceptable elections of Bangladesh and has been represented in the National Parliament. Each has played a historic role in the democratic movement."
Awami League has done many agitations in the past sitting with Jamaat. For free, fair and impartial elections in the country, the caretaker government presented the formula before the nation and based on that, fair elections were held in the country. The demand to ban such a democratic organization is illegal, extrajudicial and unconstitutional. People will not accept this demand of 14 parties, said Shafiqur Rahman.
In the statement, he further said that in the chaotic situation, the government has taken this stubborn decision to ban Jamaat in the meeting of 14-party outside the jurisdiction to divert the attention of the country and the world."
Asserting to continue the activities of the party, Ameer mentioned: "Jamaat has been blamed for all the incidents that happened in the past without any investigation. But later it was proved that Jamaat was not involved in any incident. Rather, it has been seen that the ruling group is involved in all those incidents. This time too, all the propaganda of the government will be proved false, inshallah.”
