Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh


Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh is a Bangladeshi Islamic Party registered with Bangladesh Election Commission. It is the successor to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam. Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh was a member of the 20-Party alliance. It was a member of Islami Oikya Jote and which it left in 2008.

History

Muhammad Wakkas, secretary general of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh, was elected to parliament in 1986 and 1988 from Jessore-5 as a candidate of Jatiya Party. He served as the minister of religious affairs in the cabinet of President Hussain Muhammad Ershad.
In 2016, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh organized a protest against Islamic militancy in Dhaka.
In 2017, Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh sought nominations from Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh, and other Islamist parities, to contest the upcoming general election in 2018.
Nur Hossain Kasemi, secretary general of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh criticised the government of India for seeking Bangladeshi land to build an airport in Agartala, Tripura in August 2019.
In 2020, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh campaigned to cancel the invitation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Bangladesh by the government of Bangladesh.

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