Nurul Haque Nur, State Minister for Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment and president of the Gono Odhikar Parishad (GOP), has said that Jamaat-Shibir would disappear from many areas if his party started patrolling those areas. He also urged Jamaat to rein in its lawmaker, Mufti Amir Hamza.

Nur made the remarks in a post published on his verified Facebook page late Monday night.

In the post, he alleged that Jamaat leader Amir Hamza in Kushtia was using members of his “goon force” to threaten leaders and activists of the Gono Odhikar Parishad and intimidate them by patrolling around their homes.

Nurul Haque Nur said, “If we start patrolling, Jamaat-Shibir will disappear from many areas. Therefore, I would urge the central leaders of Jamaat to rein in the unruly Amir Hamza, otherwise the consequences could be unimaginable.”

At the end of his Facebook post, State Minister Nur said that in post-July uprising Bangladesh, he wants to establish politics based on unity, harmony and tolerance rather than confrontation.