Five Islamic parties, including Jamaat-e-Islami, will launch three-day programmes on Thursday to put forward five common demands.
The parties made the announcement through separate press conferences in the capital on Sunday and Monday.
The parties that have already announced the programmes are: Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Andolan Bangladesh, Bangladesh Khilafat Majlis led by Maulana Mamunul Haque, and Khilafat Majlis led by Ahmad Abdul Qader.
A faction of the Nezam-e-Islam Party is scheduled to announce a programme with the same demands through a press conference on Tuesday.
The party's secretary-general, Musa Bin Izhar, told Stream that they are also going to announce a three-day programme.
They will hold rallies and protest marches in the capital as well as in all divisional cities, districts, and upazilas. The programmes will be held on 18, 19 and 26 September.
The demands are: holding the upcoming elections based on the July Charter, ensuring a level playing field for all, trial of all atrocities, massacres, and corruption by the Awami League, ban on the Jatiya Party and 14-party alliance, and elections through the proportional representation (PR) system.
While Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Andolan are demanding PR-based elections for both houses of the national parliament, the other parties want PR-based elections only for the upper house.
Khilafat Majlis led by Ahmad Abdul Qader added an additional demand. They have called for the cancellation of the notification for appointing music teachers in all primary schools across the country and for the effective initiative to appoint religious teachers instead.
Although the programmes will fall on the same days, each party will be conducting programmes from separate platforms.
'Not a simultaneous movement'
On Monday, responding to a question at a press conference on Monday at Al-Falah Tower in Magbazar, Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abudllah Muhammad Taher said, "We are not calling this a simultaneous movement yet. We have not mentioned this term. The parties are coming because the demands are the same. This is not an electoral alliance either."
A meeting regarding this programme was held on 13 September, attended by these five parties along with several other political parties. Leaders of NCP, AB Party, and Gono Adhikar Parishad were also present.
Programme details
All five parties will hold separate rallies and protest marches in the capital on 18 September. The following day, a Friday, the parties will hold protest marches in all divisional cities across the country. On 26 September, they will hold separate protest marches in all districts and upazilas.
Jamaat to hold afternoon programmes considering BCS exams
In a press release on Tuesday, Jamaat said as BCS exams will be held on the mornings of 18-19 September, they will carry out their programmes in the afternoon to ensure a smooth and peaceful environment for the exams.
The party also said that all its affiliated organisations across the country have already been given special instructions not to hold any programmes in the mornings of 18-19 September.
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