Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr. Shafiqur Rahman has responded to BNP Chairperson Tarique Rahman’s recent question about why former Jamaat leaders Matiur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid did not resign when they served as ministers in the BNP-led four-party alliance government. Speaking at a rally in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar on Thursday in support of 11-party alliance candidate Saiful Alam Milon for the Dhaka-12 constituency, Dr. Rahman said that during their tenure in three ministries, even their strongest critics could not accuse them of dishonesty, corruption, or nepotism.

He further alleged that attacks on Jamaat activists across the country were destroying the “level playing field” for elections, claiming that women were being assaulted and the electoral environment was being disrupted through violence. Dr. Rahman warned that if the election process was hindered, the interim government and the Election Commission would have to bear responsibility.

He added that since August 5, Jamaat had not filed unjust cases or harassed anyone and pledged to congratulate whichever party forms the next government through a fair and acceptable election.