Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh
জমিয়তে উলামায়ে ইসলাম বাংলাদেশ
Party of Islamic Scholars Bangladesh | |
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| President | Zia Uddin |
| Secretary General | Manzurul Islam Effendi |
| Founder | Maulana Shabbir Ahmed Usmani (founder of JUI) |
| Founded | 1945 (original) 1972 (current) |
| Preceded by | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam |
| Headquarters | Dhaka |
| Student wing | Chhatra Jamiat Bangladesh |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | far-right |
| Religion | Sunni Islam, Deobandi |
| Seats in Jatiya Sangsad |
0 / 300
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| Chairmen in Union Councils |
3 / 4,554
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Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh (Bengali: জমিয়তে উলামায়ে ইসলাম বাংলাদেশ) is a Bangladeshi Islamist Party registered with Bangladesh Election Commission.[1] Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh was a member of the Islamist 20-Party alliance.[2] It was a member of Islami Oikya Jote and which it left in 2008.[3]
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.[4][5] He served as the Minister of Religious Affairs in the Cabinet of President Hussain Mohammad Ershad.[6][7]
In 2016, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh organized a protest against Islamic militancy in Dhaka.[8]
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.[9]
Nur Hossain Kasemi, Secretary General of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh criticised the government of India seeking Bangladeshi land to build an airport in Agartala, Tripura in August 2019.[10]
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.[11]
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