Court should decide Awami League’s future, home minister says
Salahuddin Ahmed said he opposes an executive ban and wants the Awami League’s status decided through the courts.
Salahuddin Ahmed said he opposes an executive ban and wants the Awami League’s status decided through the courts.
Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said a court should determine the Awami League’s future through judicial proceedings.
He said the party’s activities were prohibited and that it should face proceedings as a political party.
Ahmed said he did not favour the use of an executive order to declare a political party banned.
He made the remarks at a reception and discussion programme for families of martyrs and July fighters at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in Dhaka.
Ahmed alleged that forces involved in July-August killings and crimes against humanity should not have the right to engage in politics in Bangladesh.
He described the July uprising as the result of sacrifices by opposition activists in democratic movements from 2009 to 2024.
Ahmed said that preventing movements from proceeding through regular democratic channels had made a violent and bloody movement inevitable.
He called for an 18th constitutional amendment, saying it was needed alongside reform commission work and political dialogue.
Ahmed said the proposed amendment should help fulfil aspirations arising from the uprising and provide a durable constitutional framework.
He urged accountability for those involved in alleged enforced disappearances, including the case of Ilias Ali.
He also called on opposition parties to join the constitutional amendment committee to implement what he described as the referendum’s public mandate.
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