Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr. Shafiqur Rahman promised to focus on agricultural development and its transformation into industry in Kishoreganj, a predominantly farming district, while assuring voters that no miscreants would interfere in the upcoming polls.
Miscreants set fire to election banners of Hasnat Abdullah, the joint candidate of an 11-party alliance and chief organiser of NCP, in Cumilla-4 (Debidwar).
Diploma engineers and students blocked the railway in Gazipur to protest the allocation of a 33 percent quota for BSc engineers in the recruitment of sub-assistant engineers, halting train services on the Dhaka–Rajshahi route.
The Nagorik Oikya President and Bogura-2 (Shibganj) constituency candidate Mahmudur Rahman Manna has said autocracy cannot be confronted with autocracy and that the only way to challenge authoritarianism is through democratic means.
A banner put up at various intersections in Chattogram city has sparked widespread discussion in political and social circles. The banner features a picture of Jamaat-e-Islami's Ameer, Dr Shafiqur Rahman, and uses the popular phrase "Winter Is Coming" from the hit TV series 'Game of Thrones'.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami's Ameer, Dr Shafiqur Rahman, has promised that if they come to power, they will "put our hands inside their stomachs" to recover money laundered out of the country and deposit it in the state treasury.