The Bangladesh government on Tuesday decided to ban the Jamaat-e-Islami following the deadly nationwide students바카라 protests over quotas in government jobs, accusing the fundamentalist party of exploiting the movement that left at least 150 people dead.
The development to ban the Jamaat-e-Islami from Wednesday comes a day after a meeting of the ruling Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina바카라s Awami League-led 14-party alliance passed a resolution that Jamaat, an ally of former prime minister Khaleda Zia Bangladesh National Party (BNP), must be banned from politics.
"God willing . . . the decision (of banning Jamaat) will be announced tomorrow,바카라 Law Minister Anisul Huq told newspersons at his office on Tuesday, adding it would be an 바카라executive order바카라 that will ban the Jamaat-e-Islami, a party founded in 1941 in undivided India under British rule.
The students, who waged protests during the anti-quota movement, said they had no link to the violence while evidence was there that Jamaat, its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, former prime minister Khaleda Zia바카라s Bangladesh National Party (BNP), and militant party of its students front, Chhatra Dal, carried out the mayhem, the minister claimed.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina바카라s ruling Awami League바카라s (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader, meanwhile, said the government would thoroughly examine legal aspects before banning Jamaat-Shibir to block any possible legal loophole, which could be exploited by 바카라this extremist group바카라 to engage in politics in Bangladesh.
For the sake of the country, the 14-party alliance has decided to ban Jamaat-Shibir to eliminate anti-national evil forces, Quader said.
Quader, also the Road Transport Minister, said that Jamaat and BNP used students as 바카라shields바카라 during the movement while 바카라the government is aware of the sources of their instructions, incitements, and funding.바카라
Violence gripped Bangladesh for almost the entire of July when the protests that had started in universities and colleges earlier this month, quickly turned into a widespread agitation against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government바카라s policies. The government called in the army to quell protests against job quotas after the unrest left at least 150 dead and several thousand people, including policemen, wounded and major government installations damaged.
Meanwhile, the ruling Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina바카라s Awami League-led 14-party alliance leaders held a meeting with Hasina in the chair and passed a resolution that the Jamaat, which was opposed to Bangladesh바카라s 1971 independence siding with the then Pakistani junta, must be banned from politics.
Political sources familiar with the meeting said Hasina told the meeting that there were intelligence reports that the Jamaat-Shibir clique carried out the arson attacks and damaged the government installations in the capital mobilising their 바카라trained people바카라 from different parts of Bangladesh.
In 2018, complying with a High Court verdict, the Election Commission scrapped Jamaat바카라s registration disqualifying the party, a key partner in the past BNP-led four-party alliance government from 2001-2006 tenure from contesting polls.
The Bangladesh High Court, in a landmark verdict on August 1, 2013, had declared Jamaat's registration with the Election Commission illegal. Jamaat then appealed to the appellate division and finally lost its registration in 2018.
Bangladesh, in 2009, initiated a process to try the key collaborators of Pakistani troops in 1971 on charges of crimes against humanity and six top leaders of Jamaat and one of BNP were hanged after their trial in two special war crimes tribunals while the apex Appellate Division of the Supreme Court upheld the judgments.
