Jamaat believes Ziaur Rahman proclaimed independence: Masood Sayedee

Everyone in Jamaat-e-Islami knows and believes that Ziaur Rahman declared the Independence of Bangladesh in 1971, said the party's leader Masood Sayedee on Wednesday, denouncing “ill-motivated attempts” to question the party’s position on the issue.

Masood Sayedee, the Islamist party’s election candidate in Pirojpur-1 constituency, alleged that a vested group is spreading “wrong information by distorting the party chief’s speech concerning the declaration of independence.”

He condemned the smear campaign and urged authorities to bring the defamators to book.

Masood Sayedee made the remarks at a press conference organised in Pirojpur to highlight the details of a forthcoming election rally, where Shafiqur Rahman would take part. The party leaders said that more than one million people would join the rally.

Professor Tafazzal Hossain Farid, chief of the party’s Pirojpur district unit, read out a written statement at the press conference.