Jamaat-e-Islami is preparing an aggressive return to Bangladesh’s political mainstream with nearly 300 candidates lined up for the upcoming national elections in a move that has triggered serious ideological and security concerns in India, particularly along its eastern border states.

According to an Intelligence Assessment Note accessed by CNN-News18, Jamaat, under the leadership of Ameer Shafiqur Rahman, has finalised 298 candidates, marking the largest mobilisation since the organisation was officially banned in 2013. The resurgence is being positioned as a transformation from a proscribed Islamist movement to a populist, nationalist-Islamist political force wrapped in democratic rhetoric.

The group’s revival is being driven through a deep grassroots network of district-level shura co

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