AFM Solaiman Chowdhury, founding convener of the AB Party, has formally rejoined Jamaat-e-Islami after submitting a membership form at the party’s central office on Saturday. He had announced his resignation from the AB Party on Thursday via Facebook, explaining that the movement’s broad national engagement goals were not being met.

Solaiman Chowdhury said the AB Party had become a Dhaka-centric organization and that district leaders were resigning and leaving the party. He lamented that the original commitment to mobilize the public nationwide had evaporated. A long-time Islamist activist, Solaiman Chowdhury joined Islami Chhatra Shangha in 1964, entered Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh in October 1975, and became an official Jamaat member (Rokon) in January 1976, later serving as the party’s central health secretary that same year.