Khelafat Majlis খেলাফত মজলিস | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Abdul Basit Azad |
| Secretary-General | Ahmad Abdul Qadir |
| Founded | 8 December 1989; 35 years ago (1989-12-08) |
| Headquarters | 16 Bijoy Nagar Road,Dhaka |
| Ideology | Islamism |
| Chairmen inUnion Councils | 1 / 4,554 |
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Khelafat Majlis (Bengali:খেলাফত মজলিস) is anIslamist political party inBangladesh. The party was founded inDhaka, the capital of Bangladesh in 1989 byAzizul Haque along with Ahmad Abdul Qadir and former leaders of theNational Awami Party andTamaddun Majlish. Since its founding, it has only ever gained one seat in the country'sNational Parliament.[1]
The party was publicly established on 8 December 1989, during a national conference that was held at theIEB Auditorium inDhaka. It was founded byAzizul Haque, who had left theKhilafat Andolan after the death of its founder,Muhammadullah Hafezzi. The party was founded as a union between Islami Jubo Shibir leader Ahmad Abdul Qadir, a splinter group ofAbdul Hamid Khan Bhashani'sNational Awami Party andTamaddun Majlish founderMasud Khan. Abdul Gaffar was selected as the party's inauguralamir, with Masud Khan serving as general secretary and Ahmad Abdul Qadir as vice-secretary. Azizul Haque headed the party's Central Guardian Council and shortly replaced Abdul Gaffar asamir, with A. R. M. Abdul Matin and Abdur Rab Yusufi becoming the next secretaries-general. Among the party's early activities were participating in the1990 Mass Uprising in Bangladesh against PresidentHussain Muhammad Ershad.[2]
On 22 December 1990, Azizul Haque founded theIslami Oikya Jote; a political alliance of six Islamic parties consisting of his Khelafat Majlish, theIslami Shashontantra Andolan party led bySyed Fazlul Karim, theNizam-e-Islam Party, theJamiat Ulema-e-Islam led by Abdul Karim Shaykh-e-Kouria, theKhilafat Andolan led by Ahmadullah Ashraf and theFaraizi Jamaat.[2] The alliance participated in the1991 Bangladeshi general election, gaining one constituency (Sylhet-5) underObaidul Haque of the Khelafat Majlish.[1]
As a result of the 1992Demolition of the Babri Masjid inAyodhya,India, the Majlis organised a march fromDhaka to Ayodhya on 2 January 1993 and demanded its restoration. The protestors, led by Azizul Haque, reached the border nearKhulna, where theGovernment of Bangladesh blocked off the boundaries and suppressed the march. In the same year, Azizul Haque declared on behalf of the Majlis that India's prime ministerNarasimha Rao should not visit India and gave orders to besiege thenational airport. Haque was coincidentally arrested for this reason on 9 April 1993, though he was later released on 8 May.[2]
In 2005, the party split into two as Azizul Haque did not agree with joining theBNP-ledFour Party Alliance. On 22 May 2005, the CentralMajlis-ash-Shura session was held at the Hotel Ruposhi Bangla inPaltan, where theNaib-e-AmirMuhammad Ishaq was elected as the party'samir, and Ahmad Abdul Qadir as the general-secretary.
In conjunction with other Islamist parties, Khilafat Majlis held street protests in the capital,Dhaka condemningIsrael for its role in the2006 Lebanon War.[3] In February 2010, Police inKhulnabaton-charged Khilafat Majlis activists who were holding street protests, and arrested five. Khilafat Majlis activists were reportedly protesting the arrest of a central party leader Maulana Shakhawat, who had been arrested by the government.[4] In 2021, the Majlis officially quit theBNP Alliance.[citation needed]
The Khelafat Majlis seeks the establishment of a state based on Islamic Principles.
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