Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami central executive council member Advocate Shishir Monir said there was no celebration surrounding Thursday’s presidential election because its result was already known to everyone. In a Facebook post published on August 20, 2026, he described the election as lacking the atmosphere of a public occasion despite the presidential vote taking place.

Monir said the situation was not supposed to unfold this way. He said there had been an expectation that Article 70 would be reformed and that everyone would be able to exercise their voting rights independently. His remarks focused on the electoral process and the absence of what he described as a meaningful sense of participation.

The statement by the Jamaat central executive council member was also published on the Facebook page of the party’s media wing. The source identifies his comments as a reaction to the presidential election but provides no further details about the vote, its candidates, or the declared result.