Five Islamic parties, including the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and the Islami Andolan Bangladesh, are set to take to the streets with separate programmes to pursue common demands, including the implementation of the July Charter ahead of the forthcoming national elections.
Already the Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis, one of the five parties, on Sunday announced its programmes across the country to press for the immediate implementation of the July Charter alongside four other demands.
Other demands are banning the politics of the Jatiya Party and the members of the 14-party alliance, ensuring a level-playing field for聽 the next elections, delivering visible progress in prosecuting those responsible for the July 2024 killings, and introducing proportional representation in the proposed upper house of parliament.
One of the leading organisations in the initiative, the Islami Andolan Bangladesh, will announce a countrywide programme at a press conference at the party鈥檚 central office in Dhaka today, echoing the same demands already declared by the Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis.
The Islami Andolan Bangladesh in a statement said that party amir Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim would hold a press conference today regarding simultaneous movements demanding the implementation of the July Charter, elections based on the July Charter, and the trial of fascists and their accomplices.
Leaders of the parties said that the five organisations 鈥� the Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Andolan, Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis, Khelafat Majlis, and Bangladesh Nezame Islam Party 鈥� would announce programmes separately on almost the same demands.
The separate movements on common demands would at one stage take the shape of a simultaneous movement, they said.
Islami Andolan secretary general Maulana Yunus Ahmad told 抖阴精品 on Sunday that five Islamic parties had decided to announce programmes with a set of common demands and that his party would announce its programme s today at a press conference.
He said that the parties also agreed on a simultaneous movement to realise their demands.
Jamaat-e-Islami publicity affairs secretary Motiur Rahman Akand, however, said that discussions had taken place with other Islamic parties regarding a simultaneous movement to press for the implementation of the July Charter and other related issues ahead of the forthcoming national elections. He, however, added that a final decision was yet to be made.
Meanwhile, the Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis, led by Maulana Mamunul Haque, on Thursday announced a series of countrywide rallies and protest processions to press for the party鈥檚 five-point demands.
The announcement was made at a press conference at the party鈥檚 central office at Paltan in Dhaka.
According to the Khelafat Majlis plan, a protest procession would be held in Dhaka on September 18, followed by processions in all divisional cities on September 19.
On September 26, countrywide processions would take place at district and upazila levels. 聽
Mamunul Haque called for the July Charter to be implemented through an ordinance, a presidential declaration, or other effective measures, warning that it cannot be left to the discretion of the next parliament.
He said that past experiences, such as the 1974 Special Powers Act, showed that parties often fail to keep their promises once in power.
Mamunul also demanded that the next general elections, scheduled for February 2026, be held strictly on the basis of the July Charter.
He said that several more parties would soon join the movement with similar demands but emphasised that the Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis did not consider it an electoral alliance.
He pointed out that discussions with various parties were going on regarding the programme and other matters, adding that a simultaneous movement would be launched once the final decisions were reached.
Earlier, it had been reported that eight parties, including the National Citizen Party, Amar Bangladesh Party, and Gano Odhikar Parishad, were set to launch programmes on four-point demands, including the implementation of the July Charter ahead of the national election.
However, leaders of the three parties clarified that while they had held discussions with the Islamic parties, they had not decided to join any joint movement.