Hasnat Abdullah, the 11-party alliance candidate led by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami for Comilla-4 (Debidwar), warned that some groups are planning to seize polling centers and steal votes. Speaking at a courtyard meeting on Tuesday morning, January 27, 2026, at Wahedpur Ghoshaibari field in Subil Union, he urged supporters to guard polling centers after Fajr prayers and to hand over anyone attempting to capture centers to the police.

Abdullah said that preventing vote theft no longer requires political leaders, as those who joined the July movement will resist it. He claimed that the politics of vote rigging ended after Hasina’s departure and warned that anyone attempting to manipulate the election would face similar consequences. He also dismissed propaganda suggesting that a “yes” vote in the referendum would remove “Bismillah” from the constitution, urging voters to cast two votes—one for the Shapla symbol and one for “yes.”

The meeting was presided over by Subil Union Jamaat chief Maulana Tajul Islam and attended by several local leaders from Jamaat-e-Islami and allied parties.