Jamaat's Porwar calls for defeating corrupts, extortionists in polls

The suffering, corruption and mismanagement that have prevailed over the past 54 years will continue if Jamaat-e-Islami is not voted to power, party Secretary General and Khulna-5 candidate Mia Golam Porwar said today (26 January).

"Without the victory of Dalipalla, the sufferings of the country will continue," he said while addressing election rallies.

The Jamaat leader joined processions, courtyard meetings and door-to-door campaigns in Phultala upazila's Patiabandha, Dhopakhola and Piprail areas, as well as Dumuria upazila's Mandra, Dahkhola, Pakuria, Rudaghara and Shailgati areas.

Porwar claimed that students have already defeated extortionists in various students' union elections. 

"Therefore, corrupt and extortionist elements can also be defeated in the national election," he said.

He called upon voters to rise above party affiliations and vote for candidates "with honesty and strong moral character".

"If the sheaf of paddy, boat and plough can run the state, the Scales can do so as well – this is our right," he said.

He also called for maintaining cordial relations with all political parties, including BNP, Awami League and Jatiyo Party, and stressed the need for love rather than hostility.

Urging voters to go to polling centres early on election day, he said, "Cast your vote first and then return home. Youths will have the responsibility to guard polling centres so that no vote rigging or violence takes place."

Jamaat-e-Islami Khulna district Assistant Secretary Munshi Moinul Islam, Advocate Abu Yusuf Mollah, former Phultala Upazila Parishad Vice-Chairman Principal Gawsul Azam Hadi, Phultala Upazila Ameer Professor Abdul Alim Mollah, Dumuria Upazila Ameer Maulana Moktar Hossain, Naib-e-Ameer Maulana Habibur Rahman and Acting Secretary Abdur Rashid Biswas, among others, also spoke at the programme.