Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar has warned the National Citizen Party aganist criticising Jamaat over the reform issue.

"If you [NCP] want to compete with Jamaat-e-Islami, you still have a long way to go. Don't challenge your father right after being born," he said while speaking at an event as the chief guest in Satkhira's Tala upazila yesterday.

"You are a new party of students.

"A leader of the newly formed party made a Facebook post, criticising my party. The leader claimed Jamaat-e-Islami does not want reform and did not play a role in dialogue on reform and a new constitution. But in fact, among the six written reform proposals to the consensus commission, we were the first to submit a full report. They want us to criticise them, but no one is even mentioning their name," the Jamaat leader said.

On Sunday, NCP Convener Nahid Islam on his verified Facebook page wrote that Jamaat's movement for PR system "was nothing but a calculated political deception". "It was deliberately designed to derail the consensus commission's reform process and divert the national dialogue away from the real question…

At yesterday's event, Porwar said, "This time, Hindus will show that being Hindu does not mean boat [electoral symbol of the Awami League]; it means the scale [symbol of Jamaat]. If the Hindus of Tala and Kalaroa vote for the scale, they will be safer than under any past rulers, Inshallah.

"Do not fall into the trap of provocation. A group is conspiring to stop our wave of public support. Jamaat does not grab enclosures, does not occupy land, does not extract sand illegally. If Jamaat comes to power, there will be no unemployment, no corruption, no looting. Therefore, I call upon everyone to vote for the scale."