Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmad said on 5 August that the judiciary will decide what happens to the banned Awami League, adding that the government does not want to declare any political party banned through an executive order.
He made the remarks at a discussion meeting held to mark July Mass Uprising Day.
The minister said investigations are continuing into the responsibility of parties accused of genocide and crimes against humanity, and that an International Crimes Tribunal probe is at its final stage.
He said the Awami League would be put in the dock as a political party and its trial ensured.
He invited opposition leaders to sit together in the Constitutional Amendment Committee, noting that its first meeting had been held the previous day, and promised to implement every letter of the July Charter.
He said reforms require constitutional amendments and described debates over which body should carry them out as wording, while the actual amendment must be adopted.
He said the July uprising grew out of sacrifices by opposition activists from 2009 to 2024 and that when democratic and rule-bound movements are not allowed, violent and bloody movements become necessary.
He accused Sheikh Hasina, now in Delhi, of betraying the spirit of 1971 and repeated his view that Hasina and the Awami League died politically in Dhaka and were buried in Delhi.