{"id":7142,"date":"2026-01-27T15:38:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7142"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:38:48","slug":"jamaat-chief-says-winds-of-change-stirring-bangladesh-urges-yes-vote-and-backs-alliance-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7142","title":{"rendered":"Jamaat Chief Says \u2018Winds of Change\u2019 Stirring Bangladesh, Urges \u2018Yes\u2019 Vote and Backs Alliance Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer <strong>Shafiqur Rahman<\/strong> said a nationwide \u201ccurrent for justice and change\u201d is building against corruption and \u201cfascism,\u201d adding that \u201csome people have lost their cool seeing this tide.\u201d Speaking at rallies in Satkhira and later in Khulna, he endorsed 11-party alliance candidates, handing them the <strong>scales<\/strong> symbol, and pressed voters to back reforms in the Feb. 12 referendum and national polls the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rahman framed the referendum as a binary choice\u2014\u201c\u2018Yes\u2019 means freedom, \u2018No\u2019 means servitude\u201d\u2014and urged supporters to \u201cfirst cast a strong \u2018Yes\u2019 vote\u201d before voting the scales as the \u201cvote for justice.\u201d He said youth had \u201cchosen reform\u201d and were uniting against \u201cold and new fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pledging a governance model \u201cin the spirit of Medina,\u201d he vowed tougher anti-graft action, including recovering allegedly laundered wealth, and promised an \u201cequitable, risk-based\u201d salary structure for public employees. He said a future government under his alliance would prioritize local consultation on development and return \u201cpeople\u2019s resources to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without naming rivals, Rahman criticized what he called contradictions in opponents\u2019 welfare messaging, telling a Khulna audience, \u201cYou cannot hand out family cards on one hand and dishonor mothers on the other.\u201d He also promised jobs and skills over \u201cdemeaning\u201d unemployment stipends for youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On foreign relations, he said Bangladesh would seek \u201cgood conduct\u201d with neighbors while rejecting any external \u201cpatron.\u201d He appealed for calm amid campaign-season clashes: \u201cTrust the people\u2019s verdict\u2026 headstrong reactions help no one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Satkhira event was chaired by local Jamaat leaders; nominees for the district\u2019s four seats and alliance figures joined him on stage. In Khulna, Rahman introduced six alliance candidates and repeated his call for a peaceful, high-turnout vote on Feb. 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman said a nationwide \u201ccurrent for justice and change\u201d is building against corruption and \u201cfascism,\u201d adding that \u201csome people have lost their cool seeing this tide.\u201d Speaking at rallies in Satkhira and later in Khulna, he endorsed 11-party alliance candidates, handing them the scales symbol, and pressed voters to back reforms in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7150,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions\/7150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}