Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami amir Shafiqur Rahman on Friday said that Jamaat wanted to end the ‘monarchy rule’ in the country.

‘We want to change the tradition that only the sons of the king would be king and rule the country,’ he said while speaking at an election rally on the Feni Government Pilot School premises in Feni.

He said that only becoming sons of ministers would not qualify them to be ministers, but they must have qualities to uphold the posts.

Anybody could hold the posts if they have quality to uphold the posts, Shafiqur said at the election rally.

Jamaat central leader ATM Masum, AB Party chairman Mojbur Rahman Monju and Jatiya Ganatantrik Party spokesman Rashed Prodhan, among others, spoke at the rally.

New Age Noakhali correspondent reported that Jamaat chief Shafiqur Rahman at another rally in Noakhali on Friday said, ‘People of the country have already understood that the spirit of July uprising could be implemented by our party Jamaat.’

‘So they are supporting our party and want to see us in power for implementing the July uprising spirit for the formation of a discrimination-free new Bangladesh after the Jatiya Sangsad elections scheduled for February 12,’ Shafiqur said at the election rally at Maizdi Zila School field on Friday noon.

Shafiqur said, ‘We have got a scope for forming a new Bangladesh after the victory of uprising on August 5, 2024, that came through sacrifices of lives of many youths in the uprising.’

Without mentioning the name of any political party, he said that people were not safe under a political party before the election and they would be more vulnerable if the party won in the elections and came to power.

Chaired by Jamaat’s Noakhali district amir, Yeshak Khandaker, the rally was addressed, among others, by central and local leaders of Jamaat and Jamaat-led electoral alliance.