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Bangladesh's largest Islamist enactment has said that the situation for holding a escaped and just predetermination successful the state is yet to beryllium established, arsenic it accused a conception of the interim authorities of favouring a "particular governmental party".
The remarks made during a high-level gathering of Jamaat-e-Islami's Central Executive Council held successful Dhaka connected Monday (January 5, 2026) travel amid a rapidly shifting governmental scenery up of the high-stakes February 12 wide election.
With the Awami League of deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina barred from contesting the predetermination nether the country's stringent Anti-Terrorism Act, precocious premier Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is wide seen arsenic the frontrunner to signifier the adjacent government.
Jamaat-e-Islami, which was a conjugation spouse of the BNP during its 2001-2006 tenure successful power, has present emerged arsenic its main rival successful the upcoming polls.
According to a connection issued aft the gathering chaired by Jamaat main Dr Shafiqur Rahman, the assembly reviewed the governmental clime surrounding the upcoming parliamentary election, the Dhaka Tribune paper reported.
Without naming immoderate organisation, the connection said Jamaat had received complaints from respective regions alleging that immoderate authorities officials were moving successful favour of a "specific governmental party".
The enactment leaders besides expressed interest implicit what they described arsenic the continued sidesplitting of governmental leaders and activists successful antithetic parts of the country, sometimes successful wide daylight, the study said.
Jamaat claimed that the situation for free, fair, and impartial elections is yet to beryllium established successful the country.
It called connected the Election Commission and instrumentality enforcement agencies to execute their duties with "complete neutrality" and urged the authorities to guarantee instrumentality and bid to facilitate free, fair, and impartial elections, the study said.
In an evident notation to the wide protestation that led to the autumn of the Hasina-led authorities successful August 2024, the enactment said “fascism” had been ousted aft a 16-year conflict and cautioned that the “new Bangladesh”, achieved astatine the outgo of astir 1,500 lives and much than 30,000 radical injured oregon permanently disabled, indispensable not beryllium allowed to autumn unfortunate to immoderate conspiracy.
