STAFF CORRESPONDENT

The Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday outlined 26 priority areas for running the government in its election manifesto, presenting its vision for a “new Bangladesh”.

The party’s Ameer, Shafiqur Rahman, unveiled the “Manifesto of a Safe and Humane Bangladesh” at a city hotel.

The priorities include pursuing an uncompromising stance on national interest; building a humane state based on justice; empowering the youth; and creating a safe, dignified and participatory environment for women.

Other key goals include improving law and order, establishing a corruption-free state, ensuring merit-based recruitment, bringing perpetrators of extrajudicial killings to justice, and guaranteeing fundamental human rights.

To allow MPs to freely express their views, Jamaat said Article 70 of the constitution would be amended. Party discipline, it added, would not be used to restrict MPs from acting independently in the interest of the nation and the people.

The party pledged to include a significant number of women in the cabinet if voted to power.

“The cabinet will reflect the diversity of the nation by ensuring representation of religious and ethnic communities

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