Bombs are blasted by AL-backed groups: IOJ
Staff Correspondent
Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) Chairman Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini MP yesterday said his party will ask the government to expel Jamaat-e-Islami from the 4-party alliance if it is proved that Jamaat has links with militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).The Alem-Ulamas (Islamic scholars) of the country will start jihad if the government wants to control the Kawmi madrasas, Amini said at a press conference at Lalbagh Madrasa in the city. Madrasa Hefazat (protection) Committee organised the press conference to protest the arrests and "police harassments" of Kawmi madrasa students following the bomb blasts. Some vested quarters backed by Awami League (AL) and patronised by some foreign forces that want to destroy the country are conducting the bomb attacks, the IOJ leader said. "Those who do not come for the dialogue are the enemies of the country," Amini said replying to a question about AL's rejection of the government's proposal for a dialogue at the crisis period. "We won't take a moment to close the Kawmi madrasas if any concrete proofs of operating militant activities are found there," he said in a mood of challenge to the intelligence forces. "If the government continues unnecessary arrest and harassment of the madrasa students, being failed to arrest the real culprits behind the gruesome bomb blasts, we shall call the alem-olamas and decide if we will leave the 4-party alliance," Fazlul Haque Amini said. "At this moment we are not thinking of leaving the 4-party alliance in the interest of the unity of the alliance," he noted. On the IOJ's present role as an Islamic party in the country, he said they are in the alliance, but not in the administration. "Yet, we are going to the people and raising awareness of the true teachings of Islam," he said. Amini said his party has no objection if the government deploys army at the crisis period. The IOJ leaders said they are receiving thousands of telephone calls from different madrasas with allegations that different branches of police now go to the Kawmi madrasas, search for the JMB men and ask the madrasa teachers and students about their links with the militants. "This is a question of goodwill of the Kawmi madrasas," he said and warned that the government's condition will be worse than that of the AL if the harassments continue.
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