Information Adviser Mahfuz Alam has said Bangladesh does not need “another shadow-Maududist” political party.
“Half a dozen proxy forces are already active—you will add nothing new,” he wrote, urging political groups instead to “redefine, reorganize, and reclaim.”

Although Mahfuz did not specify which parties he meant, in Bangladesh the term “Maududist” typically refers to Jamaat-e-Islami. The party was founded in 1941 in the Indian subcontinent by Syed Abul Ala Maududi.