Dhaka, July 20 -- At a massive rally held at Dhaka's historic Suhrawardy Udyan on Saturday, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami chief Dr Shafiqur Rahman delivered an impassioned address, framing his party's political agenda as a national movement against corruption and injustice.
"This time, our struggle is against corruption," declared Shafiqur, who spoke while seated after collapsing twice during the event. "We will do whatever it takes to uproot it - with the strength of the youth and the will of the people."
The gathering, estimated to have drawn tens of thousands of supporters-many waving party flags and chanting religious slogans - was the party's largest since the political transition that followed the fall of the Awami League government in...