No gathering at Ijtema Maidan before election
Home MinisterAsaduzzaman Khan said no gathering will be allowed at the Tongi Ijtema Maidan until Biswa Ijtema, mentioning that the date of Biswa Ijtema will be fixed after the national election.
The decision was taken at a meeting with the representatives of two factions of Tabligh Jamaat held at the Home Ministry, he said on Saturday, reports UNB.
The meeting was convened following a clash between two groups of the Tabligh Jamaat earlier in the day for establishing control over Ijtema Maidan that killed a one person.
The minister said the Ijtema has been delayed due to the 11th parliamentary elections billed for December 30. "All kinds of religious gatherings or rallies will be restricted on the Ijtema premises and law enforcers will guard the venue," he added.
Earlier, one person was killed and over 200 people were injured in a series of clashes between two factions of Tabligh Jamaat for establishing control over the Ijtema Maidan on the bank of the Turag River in Tongi of Gazipur.
Representatives of the two Tabligh Jamaat factions - one led by Maulana Saad Kandhalvi and the other by Maulana Jubair Hassan, Inspector General of Police, Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner and other top officials of were present at the meeting.
