Dhaka, March 5 -- Jamaat-e-Islami's deputy chief Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher has accused Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman and former advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan of playing direct roles in "manipulating polls".

On Thursday, Taher alleged that Khalilur Rahman, then security chief of the interim administration, planned a special meeting in London to bring the Bangladesh Nationalist Party to power.

"As part of that plan, he is believed to have orchestrated election engineering from within the interim government," the opposition leader said at a press conference at the party office.

"His reward was a cabinet position in the BNP government. Bringing him to justice and questioning him will reveal the truth."

Taher highlighted Jamaat's forma...