Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami amir Shafiqur Rahman on Wednesday said that his party wanted to establish dignity of women in the society if voted to power.

While speaking at a women’s rally at the Monipur Girls High School playground in the afternoon, Shafiqur Rahman, also a party-nominated candidate for Dhaka-15, said that they wanted to establish a dignified and humanitarian society by establishing rights and dignity of women and mothers in the society.

An advanced society cannot be formed without women’s participation, Shafiqur Rahman said.

He called on the women voters to cast their votes in favour of ‘Yes’ in the referendum on February 12 for establishing an anti-fascist country and also cast votes in favour of party symbol ‘balance’.

Referring to the harassment of Jamaat’s women activists during campaigns, Shafiqur Rahman called on the attackers to refrain from the attacks on women. ‘Otherwise we would resist the attackers in future,’ he warned.

Shafiqur Rahman said, ‘If our party is voted to power, we would establish daycare centres and breast feeding corners in the offices.’

Before the rally, while taking part in his election campaigns in Dhaka-15 constituency, Shafiqur told reporters that the party wanted to establish a forward looking Bangladesh with all.

‘We did not want to look backward and also want to avoid all sorts of confrontations which lead to divide the nation,’ Shafiqur Rahman said.

Shafiqur Rahman also took part in election campaigns in Mirpur -13 and Mirpur-10 areas.

Jamaat central executive council member Mobarak Hossain, Dhaka city north Nayeb-e-Amir, election coordinator Abdur Rahman Musa and former Chhatra Shibir president Zahidul Islam, among others, were present during the campaign.

Shafiqur Rahman will also hold daylong election campaigns today in favour of some other candidates of Jamaat led alliance in Dhaka city.