Interim government was involved in election rigging: Rafiqul Islam Khan

Jamaat-e-Islami’s Assistant Secretary General and Opposition Whip in Parliament Maulana Rafiqul Islam Khan has said that the interim government was involved in ‘election engineering’ or election rigging. At the same time, he has raised questions about the impartiality of many in the current government and has strongly criticized their role.
He said these things at a conference of district Jamaat unit presidents at the Municipal Community Center in Joypurhat city on Saturday afternoon (April 4). Criticizing the activities of the advisors of the interim government, Rafiqul Islam said that many advisors have failed to maintain impartiality. Many of them have tried to implement the party’s agenda. We strongly condemn and criticize their role.
Strongly criticizing a comment made by Syeda Rizwana Hasan, advisor to the interim government, he said that people all over the world know that advisor Rizwana Hasan said – we did not let Jamaat come to power. At least we have been able to do this much that we did not let them come into the mainstream even from the opposition party, that is, we did not let them form the government.
Questioning the transparency of the parliamentary elections held on February 12, the opposition whip said that how the elections were held is completely clear to the people of the country and journalists. Noting that an advisor to the interim government took oath as a minister of the party government from the first day, he said that this proves that the interim government was involved in this electoral fraud.
Rafiqul Islam called for the government to clarify its position on the issue of ‘referendum’ and ‘reforms’. He claimed that about 70 percent of the country’s people voted ‘yes’ in the referendum. He reminded that the current Prime Minister and government ministers also once sought votes in favor of this referendum and also campaigned. Criticizing those who are now saying that ‘referendums do not matter’, he asked the nation, will you accept the referendum or not? Will you accept the reforms or not? You should clarify the matter before the nation.
Rafiqul Islam warned the government by giving an example from Bangladesh’s political history, saying, “There are many such incidents in Bangladesh’s history where the government, even if it initially did not want to accept, was forced to accept at some point.” He also commented that the current government will also be forced to implement the referendum verdict at some point.