BNP Vice Chairman Barkat Ullah Bulu thinks that if the Awami League is banned for deaths during the anti-government movement last year, then Jamaat-e-Islami should also be banned for its complicity in the genocide of 1971.
โโฆJamaat should be banned in Bangladesh first. Because in 1971, they handed over their mothers and sisters to the Pakistani army, considering them as booty, and fought for Pakistan by betraying the blood of 3 million martyrs,โ he said at a meeting in Noakhali on Sunday.
โThe BNP leaders and activists suffered the most casualties in the movement. But those who deny 1971, deny the blood of 3 million martyrs and call the mass uprising of 2024 a revolution; they term August 5 the day of second independence, demand a new Constitution, and thus deny the existence of Bangladesh.
โThey even deny the great Liberation War and the Constitution of 1972. Just as they do not have the right to be citizens of Bangladesh, they also do not have the right to ask for votes,โ Bulu said, adding that the Jamaat and some Islamist parties want to create chaos in the country and disrupt the elections by talking about the proportional representation (PR) method. Their aim is to implement the agenda of another country.
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Meanwhile, Nahid Islam, convener of the National Citizen Party (NCP), a brainchild of Yunus, said that he believes Jamaatโs movement for the PR method in the election is nothing more than a planned political cunning.
In a post on his Facebook account on Sunday, the former adviser said that the movement for the PR system was deliberately designed to derail the National Consensus Commissionโs reform process and divert the national dialogue from the real question of restructuring the state and the constitution in light of the people’s uprising.
The NCP convener said that Jamaat and its allies have spoiled the dialogue and hijacked it. They used it as a bargaining tool for their narrow partisan interests. Their aim was never reform; it was manipulation.
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He noted that Jamaat never participated in the reform talks before or after the July uprising. They have made no real proposals, no constitutional vision and no commitment to a democratic republic.
โTheir sudden approval for reforms within the Consensus Commission was not an act of strong conviction but a strategic infiltration, a political sabotage disguised as reformism.โ
Nahid Islam further noted that now the people of Bangladesh have clearly understood this ruse. โThey have awakened to the truth and will no longer be deceived by false reformist or manipulative actors. The omnipotent or sovereign people will never again allow dishonest, opportunistic and morally bankrupt forces to rule over them.โ
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