'No Chance of an Alliance with Jamaat; BNP and Awami League Offered Ministries': Charmonai Pir
Islami Andolan Bangladesh ameer Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim has indicated there is no possibility of a political alliance with Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. He also claimed that both the BNP and the Awami League had tried to draw his party into an alliance with offers of parliamentary seats and ministries, but his party did not respond to those offers.
He made the remarks on Sunday (1 November) afternoon while speaking as chief guest at the inaugural programme of a Dawati month organised by the Barishal metropolitan branch of Islami Andolan Bangladesh at Town Hall square in Barishal city.
The Charmonai Pir said: 'If we needed 20-30 MPs or one or two ministries and had greed, why would we need to become MPs staying with Jamaat? The BNP had already made us that offer. The Awami League also made that offer; we did not give in to greed. Because we do politics not out of greed for power, but with the aim of the welfare of the country, Islam and the people.'
He said: 'Staying on the path of unadulterated truth, we want to save the country, save Islam and protect the welfare of the people. We do politics with this aim and objective.'
Raising his party's decision to field candidates alone in all 300 seats in the national election, Rezaul Karim said: 'When we announced candidates in all 300 seats on our own, Alhamdulillah, even I did not realise that in such a difficult moment more than 2.25 million votes would be cast for Islami Andolan. We could not even imagine it.'
He said: 'Even though the expected result did not come in the election, we were not disappointed and did not give up. Defeat or a debacle is natural, but by Allah's mercy we did not move away from our political goal.'
The Islami Andolan ameer said: 'After the 2026 national election, no one else is in a position to claim third place as a party in the name of Islam. Islami Andolan Bangladesh can now say with pride that if one does politics on the ideology of unadulterated Islam, there is no alternative to Islami Andolan Bangladesh.'
He added that although different political parties published election manifestos, Islami Andolan Bangladesh clearly set out in its manifesto a pledge to run the state based on Islam and Shariah. When the manifesto was published on national television, they pledged to the nation that if they came to power, they would run the country according to Islam and Shariah.
Leaders and activists of the Barishal metropolitan branch of Islami Andolan Bangladesh and local-level office-bearers attended the programme.
