United News of Bangladesh

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Wednesday announced its election manifesto, declaring that it will prioritise 26 key areas in running the government over the next five years if given the opportunity to lead the country. Ameer-e-Jamaat Dr Shafiqur Rahman unveiled the manifesto at a hotel in Banani. The 26 priority areas include safeguarding Bangladesh’s national interest, building a humane country based on equality, justice and fairness, empowering youth and prioritising their leadership in state governance, ensuring a safe and participatory environment for women, improving law and order, establishing a corruption-free state, and promoting merit-based recruitment. The manifesto also pledges to bring perpetrators of extrajudicial killings to justice, uphold fundamental human rights, and create large-scale employment in sectors including agriculture and industry. The manifesto strongly opposes corruption, fascism, authoritarianism, unemployment, and extortion. Other priorities highlighted include carrying forward the spirit of the July Uprising in governance, creating a sustainable and transparent economy, ensuring a cohesive democracy, revolutionising agriculture, guaranteeing adulteration-free food, and implementing the “Three Zero Vision” — zero environmental degradation, zero waste, and zero flood risk. Want to see peace in hill areas, says Jamaat Ameer On journalists’ welfare, the manifesto states that the wage board will be revised and implemented to bring media salaries in line with government officials, ensuring fair compensation for media professionals. Regarding governance reform, Jamaat pledged to implement necessary changes to the administration and governance system to shape a “new Bangladesh.” “We are committed to establishing a discrimination-free state and ensuring equal rights for all citizens. Laws and policies containing discriminatory provisions will be promptly reformed or repealed,” the manifesto reads. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami said its foreign policy will be guided by mutual respect, fairness, and equality. The party pledged to develop peaceful, friendly, and cooperative relations with neighboring and regional countries — including India, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Thailand — based on mutual respect and fairness. It also emphasised that strengthening ties with the Muslim world will be a top priority. The event was attended by diplomats from various countries, leaders of political parties, senior journalists, business leaders, and representatives from different professions.