Jamaat MPs slam budget, law and order at JS

Jamaat-e-Islami lawmakers Rafiqul Islam Khan and
Shahjahan Chowdhury criticised the government’s handling of law and order, the
banking sector, and the proposed budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year during the
budget debate in parliament yesterday.
Rafiqul Islam described the budget as “anti-people”
and accused Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed of failing to maintain public
security despite playing an active role across ministries.
Rafiqul alleged that S Alam had embezzled Tk 86,000
crore from Islami Bank and Tk 1.5 lakh crore from other banks, accusing the
government of failing to recover the money.
He further claimed that a minister had previously
defended the recruitment of more than 11,000 employees by S Alam, suggesting
possible links between the businessman and the government.
He also called upon the government to expedite legal
proceedings to bring back former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and other
“accomplices of fascism” to face trial.
Separately, Shahjahan Chowdhury criticised remarks by
the home minister, who had earlier said, “Fakhrul Islam is not Islam,
Jamaat-e-Islami is not Islam”.
In response, Shahjahan said people in Chattogram
now-a-days joke that religious rulings no longer come from Islamic seminaries
but from parliament, describing the home minister as a “modern-day mufti”.
He argued that Jamaat’s century-long history spoke for
itself and rejected the need for any official declaration on whether it was an
Islamic party.
















