, June 17 -- e-Islami skipped Tuesday's session of the National Consensus Commission, leaving their designated seats between BNP and the Nationalist Citizens' Party (NCP) empty until the midday break.

When asked by reporters, BNP Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Ahmed said, "The commission itself is in the best position to explain why Jamaat did not join today's discussion."

Nurul Haque Nur, President of the Gono Odhikar Parishad, said the absence was a symbolic gesture. "As far as we understand, Jamaat has symbolically boycotted today's meeting. There may be a number of issues on the commission's agenda that Jamaat could not align with," he said.

Expressing dissatisfaction, Gazi Ataur Rahman, Joint Secretary General of Islami Ando...