Vowing \u201cno compromise\u201d on women\u2019s dignity and safety, the chief of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami told supporters that ensuring \u201c100% safety and honor at home and in the workplace\u201d is a core commitment the party will \u201cfight for until achieved.\u201d Speaking Friday morning at an 11-party alliance election rally on the grounds of Rashik Chandra (RC) College in Mehendiganj, he said, \u201cWe are ready to give our lives, but we will not pawn a mother\u2019s honor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addressing recent reports of harassment of hijab- and niqab-wearing women, he questioned \u201chow anyone can think of tugging at a woman\u2019s clothing,\u201d adding that public outrage had grown nationwide. Turning to jobs, he said youths \u201cnever asked for unemployment stipends\u2014they asked for work,\u201d and pledged opportunities for all citizens if his party forms government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He dismissed what he called fabricated allegations against him, urging the public not to \u201cunderestimate 180 million people,\u201d and argued that \u201ctruth cannot remain concealed.\u201d The rally concluded with the presentation of election symbols to candidates in Barishal\u2019s five constituencies. The Jamaat chief also introduced alliance partner AB Party\u2019s general secretary Mohammad Asaduzzaman Bhuiyan (Barrister Fuad) as the contender in Barishal-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vowing \u201cno compromise\u201d on women\u2019s dignity and safety, the chief of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami told supporters that ensuring \u201c100% safety and honor at home and in the workplace\u201d is a core commitment the party will \u201cfight for until achieved.\u201d Speaking Friday morning at an 11-party alliance election rally on the grounds of Rashik Chandra (RC) College […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7210","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\/7210","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=7210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7214,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions\/7214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}