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Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI) convened on Friday evening an emergency meeting of its Central Executive Council to review party's electoral performance and post-poll developments.
The BJI convened the meeting following growing internal pressure within the party over its electoral performance and post-poll developments.
The closed-door meeting began at the party's central office at 5:00 pm on Friday under the chairmanship of its Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman at the party's central office at Mogbazar in the capital.
The BJI sources said that the senior leaders gathered to review what insiders described as "serious organisational and electoral concerns" following the vote.
It also said that the agenda included discussions on alleged vote rigging at several polling centres, errors in result processing, and accusations of election engineering.
Leaders were also expected to assess reports of attacks on party activists across different districts after the polls. The meeting comes amid heightened rhetoric from Jamaat's top leadership.
According to party insiders, leaders are weighing legal options, including seeking a recount in constituencies where they believe irregularities may have affected results.
Earlier Secretary General of BJI Mia Golam Parwar indicated that the party would move for a recount if legal grounds were established.
The meeting was going on till filing the report at 8:30 pm.
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