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| Jamaat supports BNP's demonstrations |
| 2010-06-07 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-e-Islami has formally endorsed BNP's anti-government programmes to protest against "the wrongdoings" of the ruling grand alliance. The decision came at a meeting of Jamaat's executive committee at the party's Moghbazar office yesterday. The party will participate in the mass sit-in organised by BNP at the Engineers' Institution in the capital on June 9 and give all-out support to make the June 27 hartal a success. Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed at a press briefing said the party's executive committee unanimously decided to back the anti-government programmes. He, however, did not clarify whether his party will join the hartal programmes but said they would support the hartal. "We will do everything to make the hartal a success," the Jamaat leader said. Referring to the reason for backing the hartal, Mojaheed said it was called to bring an end to people's sufferings. He claimed it's a way to protest in a democratic system and mount pressure on the government to resolve people's problems. "It will be a people's hartal," he said. Jamaat leaders Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, Delwar Hossain Saidee, ATM Azharul Islam, and Rafiqul Islam Khan, among others, were present at the press briefing. On Saturday night, Jamaat leaders led by party chief Matiur Rahman Nizami met the BNP chairperson and agreed to forge a movement jointly against the government. |
| Posted by:Fred |