Nahid finds Jamaat’s PR push ‘calculated deception’

National Citizen Party Convener Nahid Islam has launched a sharp attack on Jamaat-e-Islami, accusing the Islamist party of using the Proportional Representation (PR) Movement as a political ploy to derail Bangladesh’s ongoing reform process. In a statement posted on Facebook, Nahid described the movement, which Jamaat recently promoted as part of its political reform campaign, as “a calculated political deception.” He claimed the initiative was “deliberately designed to derail the Consensus Commission’s reform process and divert national dialogue away from the real question — the restructuring of the state and constitution in light of the people’s uprising.” Nahid said the idea of establishing an Upper House based on proportional representation of votes had originally emerged as a constitutional safeguard during...