Banning Jamaat by slander is wrong: Mirza Fakhrul
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir condemned the banning of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. He said that it is unfair and unconstitutional to declare a political party banned by slandering it without any fair and credible, acceptable, impartial investigation of international standards.
In a statement on Thursday (August 1), the secretary general of Jamaat's long-time partner BNP said the government's decision is reprehensible, undemocratic and unconstitutional. New debates, new issues are being brought forward to cover up the ongoing issue of the resignation of the Awami government due to the brutal massacre in the student movement, which is bound to boomerang.
Fakhrul said, Awami League will not be able to divert public opinion by playing the old card of making non-issue an issue.
On Thursday, the government issued a gazette banning all organizations including Jamaat and its student organization Islami Chhatra Shibir under the Anti-Terrorism Act. According to the law, Jamaat-Shibir is now a 'terrorist entity'.
Jamaat, one of the partners of the BNP-led four-party coalition government, has been blamed for the recent violence.
According to the government, the Jamaat-Shibir intruded into the students' movement and committed sabotage and violence.
In a protest statement, the BNP said that the demands for the resignation of this fascist government are being voiced from house to house in Bangladesh, while the Awami League has decided to ban Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh as a part of imposing its responsibility on the opposition without any credible investigation to wipe out and put pressure on the opposition.
The party's secretary general Mirza Fakhrul called the government's decision 'arbitrary' and said that the countrymen are afraid that Awami League themselves will deliberately make the situation more complicated and conflict and put the blame on the opposition party. In the past too, they have created conflict situations themselves and tried to impose it on their political opponents. The ongoing movement is also doing. The anti-state Awami League can do it in the future with its far-reaching plan to eliminate the opposition party and eliminate the opposition party.
After the independence of the country, Jamaat was banned due to 'abuse of religion'. After the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the party was given the right to do politics during the period of military ruler Ziaur Rahman, the founder of BNP. It should be noted that Jamaat-e-Islami was also banned during the former dictator of Pakistan Ayub Khan.