C T Online Desk: The Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Chittagong City Committee and former MP, Shahjahan Chowdhury has said in Rangamati that the Hill Tracts Peace Accord is an unfair agreement that sacrificed the interests of Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists in the region.
Regarding the Hill Tracts Peace Accord, he mentioned that it should not have been signed with the Awami League.
He said the agreement was supposed to take place with the BNP-led government under Khaleda Zia in 1991, but it was thwarted by a conspiracy involving the then-Indian Prime Minister.
He further addressed Shantu Larma, saying: “You had left for Tripura during the discussions. No one had the courage, but we brought you to Khagrachhari Circuit House by helicopter.”
Speaking as the chief speaker at a workers’ conference in Rangamati on Saturday morning, Shahjahan Chowdhury called the peace agreement unjust, claiming that it overlooked the representation of the region’s Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist communities. He criticized the agreement, saying: “You can represent the plains, but we cannot represent the hills. What kind of agreement is this?”
He pointed out that Jamaat-e-Islami has always been committed to solving the hill region’s problems, following the guidance of Professor Ghulam Azam, the greatest Bengali of all time.
He assured the indigenous communities, including the Chakma, Marma, Tripura, and Lusai, that Jamaat is not a communal party, but a freedom-seeking one.
He invited them to join the party, calling it the only one capable of solving the hill region’s issues.
Shahjahan Chowdhury further said that other political parties have been playing games with the indigenous people, without solving their problems.
He assured them that Jamaat would guarantee a solution to their issues.
He urged everyone to join together to build a fair, developing, happy, prosperous, and welfare-driven state in the future.
The chief speaker at the event, Shahjahan Chowdhury, said that both Pakistan’s Ayub Khan and Bangladesh’s Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had banned Jamaat.
He emphasized that despite facing severe repression, Jamaat had risen like a pyramid.
He also said that Jamaat does not seek power but aims to establish the deen of Allah.
Before the conference, the party organized a colourful procession in Rangamati, which paraded through the important streets of the city.
In the workers’ rally held at Al-Amin Madrasa grounds on Saturday morning, the central Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General Maulana Muhammad Shahjahan was the chief guest.
He accused the fascist Hasina government of trying to label Jamaat as a war criminal and anti-Bangladesh party.
He said that despite attempts to suppress the party, Jamaat earned the trust of the people over the years.
On July 31 this year, the government banned Jamaat and Shibir under the 1993 Anti-Terrorism Act, but only five days later, Hasina had to flee to India.
The chief speaker at the event, Shahjahan Chowdhury, said that both Pakistan’s Ayub Khan and Bangladesh’s Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had banned Jamaat.
He emphasized that despite facing severe repression, Jamaat had risen like a pyramid.
He also said that Jamaat does not seek power but aims to establish the deen of Allah.
Before the conference, the party organized a colourful procession in Rangamati, which paraded through the important streets of the city.
