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SYLHET, July 24, 2025 (BSS) - Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqul Rahman today 
said they dream of building a corruption-free Bangladesh. 

"Corruption, extortion and grabbing are not our culture. The people are not 
safe from a party that cannot guarantee against such a culture," he told a 
discussion and doa mahfil for July uprising martyrs and injured at Shilpakala 
Academy here.

Sylhet Metropolitan Jamaat Ameer Fakhrul Islam chaired the programme.

Shafiqur Rahman said after the July uprising, they tried their best to stand 
by the martyrs and injured. 

"We are always by their side, we will be. We have tried to fulfill our moral 
responsibility," he said.

Assuring that if Jamaat comes to power, they we will first take steps to 
respect and rehabilitate the families of the martyrs and injured, he said, 70 
percent of the families of the martyrs in this movement are working people. 

"If we come to power, these families will be given priority first," he said.

He urged the government to properly ensure treatment of the injured and 
ensure trial of the killers.

Jamaat Ameer called for ensuring the rights of tea workers. "Don't they have 
the right to live with dignity? When they talk about rights, they are pushed 
towards the garden owners. No government had any thought of taking this 
sector forward. If we come to power, the human rights of everyone from tea 
workers to low-income people in slums will be ensured," he said.

He said, "Our neighboring countries will get priority in case of foreign 
relations. But if they want to take away our rights, the 180 million people 
of the country will resist. We will not let anyone interfere in our country's 
internal affairs."

About polls, Shafiqur Rahman said they do not want elections without minimum 
(basic) reforms. 

Before the elections, the top criminals who shot and killed students and 
people in the July-August mass uprising must be tried, he said. 

Stating that no one is the mastermind of the July movement, he said, "If one 
or two people are called masterminds, the rest will be underestimated. All 
those who fought are the masterminds of this movement."

Noting that the government had failed to provide medical care to those 
injured in the July uprising, the Jamaat Ameer said, "The government has not 
stood by the family members of the martyrs properly."

Metropolitan Jamaat Secretary Shahjahan Ali and Nayeb-e-Ameer Nurul Islam 
Babul moderated the programme while party's Assistant Secretary General 
Advocate Ehsanul Mahbub Zubair, Jamaat's Sylhet District Ameer Maulana 
Habibur Rahman, Habiganj District Ameer Makhlisur Rahman, Sylhet District 
Secretary Joynal Abedin, Maulana Abdus Salam Al Madani, Maulana Lutfar Rahman 
Humaydi, Jamil Ahmed Raju, Shamim Ahmed and Abdullah Al Mahmud, also spoke.