Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General Rafiqul Islam Khan yesterday alleged that the "ghost of politicisation" still exists within the interim government.

He also warned that people will again take to the streets if anyone in the government works in favour of any particular political party.

"If any advisers, secretaries, election commissioners, or police officials want to act as party men, they should resign. Everyone knows what happened to those in the administration who acted as party stooges. If someone in a government office works for a political party, the people will not just sit idle," he said at a rally at the north gate of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in Dhaka.

Rafiqul expressed optimism that his party would win in the upcoming elections in a similar manner to how Islami Chhatra Shibir -- the Jamaat-backed student organisation -- did in the student union elections across universities.

The rally was held by Jamaat as part of the simultaneous movement of eight like-minded parties. Apart from Jamaat, Bangladesh Nezam-e-Islam Party, Khelafat Majlish, Jatiya Ganatantrik Party (JAGPA) and Islami Andolon Bangladesh also held similar programmes separately in different places in the capital.

This was their fourth round of simultaneous programmes with five demands, including the issuance of an order to implement the July National Charter and holding a referendum on that order by November.

Rafiqul reiterated their five-point demands and said, "If these demands are not met, Jamaat's movement will continue."

Nezam-e-Islam Party, Khelafat Majlish and JAGPA held separate rallies on the road in front of the National Press Club in the afternoon. Activists and leaders of Islami Andolon Bangladesh held a rally at the Baitul Mukarram area.

The parties will hold protest rallies and marches in divisional towns on October 25 and in district towns on October 27.