Staff Reporter:
Nayeb-e-Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Dr. Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher yesterday ex-pressed concern over the recent attacks on its women activists in different parts across the country.
“Despite incidents occurring openly in many areas, the Election Commission was playing a “passive role,” raising serious questions about the credibility of the upcoming national election,” he told a press conference this afternoon at the party’s central office in the capital.
Dr. Taher said Jamaat-e-Islami was the only political party in the country where nearly 43 percent of its members were women, numbering no less than 15 million. “While the Representation of the People Or-der (RPO) requires political parties to ensure at least 33 percent female participation, Jamaat alone has fulfilled this condition” he added.
Despite this, he said, a planned propaganda campaign was being carried out to portray Jamaat as a party where women were given little importance. “If women’s importance is questioned in a party where fe-male participation is the highest, then the nation should consider the situation of women in parties with much lower representation,” he added.
