Dhaka, Sept. 29 -- BNP Standing Committee member Hafizuddin Ahmed on Monday said Jamaat-e-Islami is pushing for a proportional representation (PR) system to block elections as it has always feared the people's verdict.

"A political party that opposed the Liberation War in 1971 and the Pakistan Movement in 1947 and that has always stood against people, now wants to decide the fate of Bangladesh by demanding the election under PR," he said while speaking at a discussion.

He said the nation has struggled for 17 years for voting rights, but now Jamaat is trying to block that by raising the PR issue at the instigation of neighbouring India, a country that does not even practise this system itself.

The BNP leader said if the PR system were s...