Jamaat holding emergency meeting after CA’s address

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s central executive council is holding an emergency meeting to work out its next course of action following the chief adviser’s announcement that the national election and the referendum will be held on the same day.

The meeting began on Thursday evening at the party’s central office in Moghbazar, said Mujibul Alam, senior assistant of Jamaat’s central publicity department. Members of the executive council and the party’s legal experts are attending the meeting.

Earlier in the day, Jamaat Secretary General Prof Mia Golam Parwar announced the meeting during a press conference held shortly after the chief adviser’s televised address.

Parwar said holding the referendum and the national election simultaneously could create complications for voters. “If both take place on the same day, a voter will have to cast a ballot in the referendum and another in the national election. This will create confusion,” he said.

He said the party’s next course of action would be finalised after detailed discussions at the meeting and subsequently communicated to the nation through the media.