National Citizen Party (NCP) convenor Nahid has slammed Jamaat-e-Islami’s so-called ‘PR Movement’ as a deliberate attempt to mislead the public and derail genuine reform efforts, calling it “a calculated political deception.” In a Facebook post on Sunday, Nahid said the people of Bangladesh have seen through Jamaat’s tactics.
“They are no longer fooled by false reformists or manipulative actors. Neither the Almighty nor the sovereign people of this land will allow dishonest and opportunistic forces to return to power.” He accused Jamaat of deliberately attempting to derail the ongoing reform process led by the Consensus Commission by reducing core constitutional reform demands to a narrow, technical debate over proportional representation (PR) voting.
“Our goal was to build a broad-based national movement around substantive reforms; including the creation of an Upper House based on PR voting, as outlined in the July Charter,” he wrote. “But Jamaat and its allies hijacked the issue, using it as a political bargaining chip rather than a tool for real change.”
Nahid emphasized that Jamaat had shown no real interest in reform, either before or after the July Uprising. “They offered no constitutional vision, no concrete proposals and no commitment to building a democratic republic.”
He further alleged that Jamaat’s late-stage endorsement of reform within the Consensus Commission was “not born of conviction, but of calculation; an act of political sabotage disguised as reform.”
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