What Jamaat’s Nayeb-e-Ameer said about female candidacy

Staff Reporter :

Jamaat-e-Islami has not nominated any female candidates for the upcoming 13th National Parliamentary Election. Regarding this, the party’s Nayeb-e-Ameer, Dr. Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher, said, “Although we are not fielding female candidates directly this time, there are female candidates from our alliance.”

He made the remarks on Tuesday while speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the party’s policy summit at a hotel in the capital.

Explaining the absence of female candidates from Jamaat, Taher said, “During the discussions on reforms at the Consensus Commission, the issue of directly fielding women in elections came up. There was a decision to ensure women’s representation ranging from 5 percent to 15 percent. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has agreed with this decision. Therefore, if this becomes law, we have agreed to field women in direct elections, and we will be obliged to do so.”

On online election campaigning, he said, “Online is a new strategy, which did not exist before. So we will follow whatever the RPO allows regarding online billboards and try to reach voters accordingly. However, our main target is one-to-one contact.

That is why our people are going door to door and trying to reach every individual.”
The Jamaat leader added, “We are fully prepared. If Jamaat-e-Islami comes to power, it is not that ministers will be appointed only from the party. We will select ministers from the people of Bangladesh. There are people in Bangladesh who are capable of being finance minister.

There are people capable of being health minister. So if we consider all of Bangladesh, will there be any shortage of capable people?”