Jamaat now wants referendum any day before polls

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami now wants the proposed referendum on the July National Charter 2025 to be held on any separate day before the next generation election, said its assistant secretary general AHM Hamidur Rahman Azad on Wednesday, November 5.

“The latest stand of our eight parties is that the referendum should be held any day before the election,” he said while talking to reporters after a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin.

A two-member Jamaat delegation, led by Azad, met the CEC at the latter's Nirbachan Bhaban office at 3:30pm.

Earlier, Jamaat had been demanding for arrangements of the referendum within November 2025. But BNP opposed the demand and asked the government and the Election Commission to hold the referendum simultaneously with the national election.

Azad said the CEC told them if the government asks the Election Commission to hold the referendum on a separate day, they will do it.

The Jamaat leader said they will place a formal demand before the government for arrangements of referendum on a separate day.

Source: UNB