Jamaat-e-Islami to hold talks with Election Commission
- The party will demand the cancellation of Shamsul Alam's appointment
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Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is set to sit down for a meeting with the Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday morning. A high-level delegation from the party will reach the EC Building at Agargaon in the city at 11:00 AM for the scheduled discussions.
The party confirmed the matter through a press release issued on Tuesday.
The delegation will include Secretary General and former Member of Parliament Miah Golam Parwar, Assistant Secretary General and former MP Dr. A.H.M. Hamidur Rahman Azad, another Assistant Secretary General and central Propaganda and Media Secretary Advocate Ehsanul Mahbub Jubayer, as well as central council members and senior lawyers Advocate Jasim Uddin Sarkar and Advocate Shishir Mohammad Monir.
According to party sources, the primary agenda of the meeting will be the recent appointment of retired official Shamsul Alam as Additional Secretary to the EC Secretariat on a one-year contract. Jamaat plans to directly place its demand for the cancellation of this appointment before the election commissioners.
This follows a press conference held by the party in Dhaka on Tuesday, where Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar alleged that appointing an individual with political affiliations to such a sensitive constitutional body would raise public questions about the Commission's neutrality.
Parwar claimed that after his retirement, Shamsul Alam served as a member of a BNP-affiliated committee responsible for parliamentary constituency re-demarcation. Consequently, his appointment to the EC Secretariat could cast doubt on the fairness, impartiality, and acceptability of the upcoming local government elections in the eyes of the public.
During the press conference, Parwar demanded the immediate revocation of Alam's appointment, warning that failure to do so could render the upcoming local government elections questionable. He also suggested that political parties might be forced to reconsider their participation in the electoral process if the issue is not addressed.
