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A. Writ to restrain 11 parties including League from political activities and elections


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  • Staff Correspondent
  • Published: 28 Oct 2024, 05:02 PM

All kinds of political activities of 11 parties, including Awami League, are banned for indiscriminate killing of people, destruction of democratic institutions, unconstitutional seizure of state power through illegal process, and a writ has been filed in the High Court to prevent them from participating in future elections.

On Monday (October 28), coordinator of anti-discrimination student movement. Three people including Sarjis Alam, Abul Hasnat and Hasibul Alam filed the writ.

Later, two coordinators of the movement, Sarjis Alam and Hasnat Abdullah, said in a post on the social media Facebook, 'I have written two writs. One. The first writ on why the past three elections of Awami League should not be declared illegal and the benefits obtained illegally should not be returned. Two. A second writ as to why they should not be restrained from all political activities pending the judgment of this case. There is no mention of prohibition or prohibition of registration as a party in the writ.

In the writ petition, it has been requested to issue a rule that why not order to ban all kinds of political activities of 11 parties including Awami League for indiscriminate killing of people, destruction of democratic institutions, unconstitutional seizure of state power through illegal process.

At the same time, in addition to banning all kinds of political activities of 11 parties, the writ has also requested to issue a rule on why the parties should not be instructed to prevent them from participating in all kinds of elections in the future.

Apart from the 11 parties of the Awami League-led coalition, the remaining defendants are the Law Secretary, Home Secretary, Election Commission and Inspector General of Police.

Earlier, Bangladesh Awami League was petitioned in the High Court for banning and canceling the party's registration due to the indiscriminate killing of students during the quota reform movement.

The High Court bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Muhammad Mahbub-ul Islam dismissed the writ filed by Arifur Rahman Murad Bhuiyar on behalf of the human rights organization Sarda Society.

At the hearing of the writ, the Attorney General. Asaduzzaman said that the interim government has no intention to ban or cancel the registration of any political party. This government believes in the freedom of organization and political parties that is enshrined in the constitution. And the injustice of those involved with the previous authoritarian government will be tried through the courts of law. It is not appropriate to ban any political party for that.

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