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Hours earlier polling, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026) accused the largest Islamist Party Jamaat-E-Islami (JEI) of attempting to sabotage the predetermination process by utilizing wealth power.
The accusation was made aft a JEI person was caught with astir Taka 74 lakh successful Saidpur airdrome successful northbound Bangladesh amid societal media reports that respective specified Jamaat leaders person been recorded distributing currency among voters.
JEI has countered the accusation and said the incidental was a “staged drama” by instrumentality enforcement agencies.
“At a clip erstwhile each banks, fiscal institutions, concern transactions and activities are closed to forestall amerciable fiscal dealings successful the election, naturally, questions are arising everyplace – from what root did the apical person of Jamaat successful 1 territory get this immense magnitude of money, for what purpose, to whom was it intended for, and wherefore was helium traveling from Dhaka to Thakurgaon connected the eve of election,” said Mahdi Amin, Spokesperson of BNP’s Election Steering Committee alleging that determination person been reports of Jamaat leaders distributing currency successful aggregate different constituencies including Dhaka-15 wherever the JEI’s Ameer Shafiqur Rahman is contesting election.
BNP and Jamaat, who were coalition partners during 2001-’06, are pitted against each different successful the lack of the Awami League whose activities stay banned.
Over the past respective days the 2 parties person clashed connected aggregate occasions and connected Tuesday successful Bogura, a BNP person was injured aft helium was attacked by Jamaat supporters. Mr. Amin accused JEI of collecting bKash fiscal transportation numbers and Voter IDs of citizens and readying to manus implicit currency to voters. “The Saidpur Airport incidental cannot beryllium viewed arsenic an isolated event,” said Mr. Amin. He further said that “a peculiar party” is accumulating “domestic weapons” and intimidating voters.
Bangladesh is observing a four-day nationalist vacation during which banks are not operating.
In an indirect swipe astatine JEI, Mr. Amin further said a “certain governmental party” is referring to the women of Bangladesh successful “disrespectful and obscene terms” and trying to bounds moving hours for women adding “This predetermination presents a fantastic accidental to protestation against this injustice.”
Jamaat-e-Islami held a property league soon aft the incidental was reported from Saidpur and said that concerted attempts were being made to task the enactment successful antagonistic airy up of Thursday’s (February 12, 2026) polling.
Ahsanul Mahboob Zubair, Assistant Secretary General of JEI and caput of its media squad said the Jamaat person Belal Uddin Pradhan had received a ‘no objection certificate’ from the Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport’s information helping successful Dhaka earlier flying retired to Saidpur and accused the section information constitution of disregarding the clearance fixed successful Dhaka airport.
“He has intelligibly stated that helium travels for his business. Banks are closed, and helium needs to behaviour definite transactions. That is wherefore helium had immoderate currency with him, which is precise normal. A idiosyncratic tin transportation currency for business, household needs, oregon different purposes,” said Mr. Zubair informing the instrumentality enforcement agencies to enactment neutral.
