Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Professor Mia Golam Porwar said that attempts to divide the nation by reviving old issues hinder progress. Speaking to journalists after addressing a workers’ rally organized by the Bangladesh Labour Welfare Federation in Cumilla on Friday morning, he stated that most current members of parliament were born after independence and that labeling them as anti-liberation or collaborators is rejected by the public.

Porwar claimed that a destructive force is active in promoting divisive politics, linking it to the current state of the National Freedom Fighters Council (Amendment) Bill 2026. He argued that despite the theoretical focus on workers’ rights in communism, such rights were not realized in practice. He added that Islamic labor principles cannot be implemented under Western democratic, socialist, or nationalist systems, emphasizing the need for an Islamic governance structure.

He further alleged that some groups are keeping old disputes alive as part of a foreign conspiracy and called for resolving such debates quickly to build a united Bangladesh for future generations.