Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) Secretary General Shafiqur Rahman has been elected Ameer (Chief) of the party on November 12, reports The Daily Star. He was elected by the members of JeI. He will be replacing Maqbul Ahmed. The members cast their votes between October 17 and November 10. The results were published by JeI’s central election commission on November 12. Shafiqur passed MBBS exam from Sylhet Medical College in 1983. During his student life, Shafiqur acted as the president of the Sylhet unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), student wing of JeI.