Bangladesh’s interim authorities on Wednesday banned ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League celebration’s scholar organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), caving in to calls for from the Anti-Discrimination Pupil Motion which demanded a ban on the scholar physique.
A notification signed by Senior Secretary Md Abdul Momen of the Public Safety Division below the Ministry of Residence Affairs stated the scholar physique over the previous 15 years below the Awami League authorities was concerned in varied actions that disrupted public security, together with homicide, rape, torture, harassment in scholar dormitories, and tender manipulation.
The notification stated there was adequate proof indicating the scholar physique continued to interact in conspiratorial, damaging, and provocative actions towards the State even after the autumn of the Awami League authorities.
Hasina on August 5 fled to India within the face of violent protests towards her authorities, resulting in the loss of life of a whole bunch of individuals since mid-July.
In the course of the Anti-Discrimination motion, BCL leaders and activists attacked protesting college students and most of the people with arms, killing a whole bunch of harmless individuals and endangering the lives of many extra individuals, the notification stated.
The federal government has adequate proof that even after the autumn of the Awami League authorities, the Bangladesh Chhatra League has been concerned in conspiratorial, damaging and provocative actions towards the State, it stated.
Consequently, the interim authorities declared a ban on Bangladesh Chhatra League below Part 18(1) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009, it stated, including the organisation was listed as a banned entity with fast impact.
“The ban will come into impact instantly,” learn the notification.
The order got here a day after protesters from the Anti-Discrimination College students Motion on Tuesday laid a five-point demand, together with the scrapping of Bangladesh’s Structure, President Shahabuddin’s removing, and a ban on the Chhatra League.
“Bangladesh and Dhaka College at the moment are free from stigma. We want to thank the interim authorities,” stated Nusrat Tabassum, a coordinator of the scholar motion, at Raju Sculpture of the nation’s premier college.
The 76-year-old BCL, born as a scholar grouping on the Dhaka College campus in 1948, a 12 months forward of Awami League’s emergence as a political celebration, was formally a “brotherly” or “fraternal” organisation of Awami League whereas it was thought to be the celebration’s scholar wing.
