The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Tuesday announced a 31-point policy charter, including zero tolerance for corruption, before the forthcoming Jatiya Sangsad elections.
In the charter, the party pledged that it would reduce tax and value-added tax, introduce ‘smart social security card’ and not to increase charges of gas, electricity and water for the industries in next three years if it is voted to power.
Addressing the party’s Policy Summit-2026 at a hotel in the capital Dhaka, Jamaat amir Shafiqur Rahman shared the party policy in various areas and made the pledges in the presence of foreign diplomats from different countries in Bangladesh.
Shafiqur said that for establishing a new and enriched Bangladesh, main challenge would be establishing stability in the country for democratic transition through the 13th JS elections slated for February 12.
After the liberation in 1971, justice and economic emancipation have not been achieved so far satisfactorily, he observed.
Shafiqur said that economic emancipation of the country would not be possible without the participation of women.
The pledges made in the policy charter included the reopening of the closed mills and factories on the basis of public-private partnership giving 10-per cent ownership to workers, providing farmers loans without interests, providing each of five lakh graduates Tk 10,000 monthly loan without interests for two years, giving each of one lakh students a monthly loan of Tk 10,000 on the basis of merit and need without interests, giving 100 meritorious students interest-free loan every year for studying at the world’s best universities in home and abroad, establishing the world biggest women university unifying Eden, Baddrunnesa and Home Economics colleges, establishing specialised hospitals in 64 districts across the country and ensuring free health services for those above 60 years and children up to two years. Under the ‘First thousand-day programme’, primary health care and nutrition safety of mothers since pregnancy along with their babies would be brought under the social safety programme.
Jamaat pledged to ensure all recruitments on the basis of merit. It also promised to frame business-friendly policy to govern the country.
Jamaat central leaders Syed Abdullah Muhammad Taher, Mia Golam Parwar, ANM Shamsul Islam, ATM Masum, Rafiqul Islam Khan, Hamdur Rahman Azad and Abdul Halim, among others, were present in the day-long programme.
Diplomats from the United States, the United Kingdom, China, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Australia, Afghanistan, France, Germany and the European Union among others attended the policy summit.
