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Saturday | October 24, 2026 | Dhaka

Jamaat Ameer to visit Moulvibazar today

 Moulvibazar Correspondent
 Published: 12:05 AM, 24 October 2026

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer and Opposition Leader Dr Shafiqur Rahman is visiting his home district of Moulvibazar today (Saturday) on an organisational visit.

This will be his first visit to the district town since the national parliamentary election. The Moulvibazar district unit of Jamaat-e-Islami has completed preparations for the visit.

The Jamaat Ameer is scheduled to arrive at Sylhet Osmani International Airport at 8:00am. He will be accompanied by Central Assistant Secretary General Advocate Ehsanul Mahbub Zubair, Sylhet Metropolitan Ameer Md Fakhrul Islam and Sylhet District Ameer Maulana Habibur Rahman.

At 10:30am, he will meet local journalists and exchange views with them at Moulvibazar Circuit House.
Representatives from the district’s seven upazilas, five municipalities, 67 unions and 603 wards, along with all rukons (party members) and local election candidates, are expected to attend the programme.

At 11:30am, Dr Shafiqur Rahman will attend a rukon conference at the District Shilpakala Academy as the chief guest and address the gathering during the award-giving session. Around 600 party members are expected to participate.

Leaders of the 11-party alliance in Moulvibazar district will also pay a courtesy call on the Jamaat Ameer.
Under the constitution of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the district Ameer is elected every two years.

Voting to elect the Moulvibazar district Ameer for the 2027-2028 term is scheduled to begin at 2:00pm. Sylhet District Ameer Maulana Habibur Rahman will oversee the election process.

Extensive preparations have been made across the district’s upazilas, unions and municipalities ahead of the visit.

In preparation for the visit, a meeting was held at 11:00am on Tuesday at Dewan Manzil, attended by the Ameers, Naib Ameers and secretaries of the district’s upazila units.

The meeting was presided over by Moulvibazar District Ameer Engineer Md Shahed Ali and moderated by District Secretary Md Yamir Ali.

Among those present were District Naib Ameer Maulana Abdur Rahman, District Assistant Md Alauddin Shah, Maulana Harunur Rashid Talukdar, Aziz Ahmad Kibria and Maulana Sheikh Abdul Haque, president of the district’s Ulama Division, along with other leaders.