The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami will take part in the next local government elections alone -- not with its alliance partners.

Though the Jamaat took part in the February 12 Jatiya Sangsad elections under the banner of Jamaat-led alliance, they would participate in the upcoming local government polls alone, leaders of the party said.

Jamaat assistant secretary general Ahsanul Mahboob Zubair on Monday told New Age that as the next local government elections would not be held on a party basis and not using party symbol they would take part in the elections alone.

Our party has started taking preparations to participate in the polls countrywide and for mayoral elections the relevant party units would send names of the proposed party candidates to the central authority, Ahsanul Zubair said.

The central body will finalise the mayoral candidates while local party units would finalise candidates for upzila parishad, municipality, and union parishad elections, he said.

According to the Election Commission, the next local government elections will start in October of the current year and end next year.

The National Citizen Party, a partner in the Jamaat-led 11-party alliance, meanwhile, also started taking preparations to take part in the next local government elections.

The NCP has already announced its mayoral candidates across the country, including the Dhaka north and south city corporations.

Chairman of the Amar Bangladesh Party, another alliance partner, Mojibur Rahman Monju also told New Age that his party would take part in next local government elections alone.