Awami League’s student organization Bangladesh Chhatra League has been banned by the interim government. It has also listed this student organization as a banned entity.
This decision was informed in the notification of the Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday.
The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and the National Civic Committee had set a deadline of tomorrow Thursday to ban the Chhatra League from a press conference this evening. Before that, the government declared the organization banned.
According to the notification of the Ministry of Home Affairs, in various periods after the independence of Bangladesh, especially during the last 15 years of authoritarian rule, Bangladesh Awami League’s fraternal organization Bangladesh Chhatra League was involved in various public security activities including murder, torture, common room-based oppression, seat trading in dormitories, tender betting, rape, sexual harassment. And documentary information about this has been published in all the major media of the country and in some terrorist incidents, the crimes of the organization’s leaders and workers have also been proven in court.
The notification also said that during the anti-discrimination student movement since July 15, Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders-activists have killed hundreds of innocent students and people and endangered the lives of many more people by attacking the protesting students and general public with frenzied and reckless armed attacks. Apart from this, the government has enough evidence that even after the fall of the Awami League government on August 5, the Bangladesh Chhatra League has been involved in conspiratorial, destructive and provocative activities against the state and various terrorist activities.
It is said in the notification, therefore, the government banned Bangladesh Awami League’s fraternal organization ‘Bangladesh Chhatra League’ under the authority of ‘Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009’ and listed the student organization ‘Bangladesh Chhatra League’ as a banned entity in schedule-2 of this law.
