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Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

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Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh is the largest and most influential Islamic political party in Bangladesh. In the last general election (2001) it secured 18 seats (among 300 seats) in the parliament and awarded 2 ministries for its role in the formation of the four-party alliance that gained a landslide victory in the 2001 Parliamentary Election. Today the BNP-Jamaat alliance enjoys a two-third majority in the Parliament.

Jamaat is basically an ideological party that advocates for greater role of Islam in public life. The main objective of Jamaat is the establishment of Deen or Islamic social order through ethical, peaceful, constructive, democratic, and constitutional means. Jamaat claims that it lives up to its standards since its inception in 1941.

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