In Bangladesh, the government is set to ban Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir through an executive order by tomorrow (on Wednesday), said the Bangladesh Law Minister Anisul Huq while talking with the media on Tuesday. Anisul said he would hold a meeting with the Home Minister to fix the process, report Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS).

The law minister said this a day after the Awami League-led 14-party alliance unanimously recommended the ban of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir.

Earlier, ruling Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said the government will implement the decision of the 14-party alliance on banning Jamaat and its student wing Chhatra Shibir, report BSS.

“The government will implement the decision of the 14-party alliance led by Awami League on banning Jamaat-Shibir after evaluating the legal aspects so that they don’t get any opportunity to do politics through loopholes of the law,” Quader said.

The minister said the International Crimes Tribunal mentioned the Jamaat had relations with war crimes. In fact, Jamaat is an evil communal force in the guise of religion, he said.

Earlier, The Minister said that Jamaat-Shibir were involved in plotting conspiracy and violent activities and those were proved, report BSS.

Meanwhile, the Public Administration Ministry said on Tuesday that  All offices will run as per the regular schedule from Wednesday.  while Bangladesh Railway (BR) will resume operations of passenger trains on a limited scale from Thursday (August 1), around two weeks after the service was suspended due to nationwide quota reform protests.

By – Navalsang Parmar (Dhaka)