Acting Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami professor Mujibur Rahman said that they would not go to elections under the incumbent government without a caretaker government system.
He made the remark at a grand rally held in front of Notre Dame College at Arambagh in the city on Saturday.
The rally was organised to press home the party’s demands, including the establishment of a caretaker government and the release of Jamaat chief and religious leaders and activists.
Stating that there will be no election without a caretaker government, Mujibur Rahman said that people’s voting rights must be established even with their lives.
He also said, ‘We do not want to take revenge for the killing of our leaders and activists through further killing but we want to take the revenge through implementing dreams of our murdered party people.’
‘No law will be allowed in the country excluding the law of Allah,’ he added.
Jamaat started the rally on a makeshift stage built on a pickup in front of Notre Dame College at about 2:20pm while the short rally ended at about 3:10pm.
Earlier in the day, thousands of Jamaat leaders and activists gathered at the Arambagh intersection at about 11:00am and started shouting slogans.
Police put up several barricades on the way to Arambagh to Shapla Square at Motijheel amid tight
security adjacent to Shapla Square.
Due to the police barricade, Jamaat activists could not cross the Arambagh intersection.
Then, they broke a police barricade at the Arambagh intersection at about 1:15am and took position on roads.
The meeting was presided over by Jamaat leader Nurul Islam who announced the end of the rally and instructed the leaders and activists to leave through Shahjahanpur via Kamalapur.
He urged party people not to step into any provocation.
He also thanked members of the law enforcement agencies from the rally.
