DOT Desk: Law Minister Anisul Huq has said that the government will ban Jamaat-e-Islami by today, reports Dhaka Tribune.
The party will be banned through an executive order, he told reporters on Tuesday at the secretariat.
The law minister said discussions will be held on Tuesday with Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to finalize the process for implementing the ban.
For the sake of the country, the 14-party alliance has decided to ban Jamaat-Shibir to eliminate anti-national evil forces, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader told reporters after a meeting of Awami League-led 14-party alliance at Ganabhaban on Monday evening.
Despite Jamaat losing its registration, it has continued political activities as an ally of the BNP-led 20-party alliance, along with some other opposition groups, over the last couple of years.

Several times, the Awami League and the leaders of the 14-party alliance called for banning Jamaat from Bangladesh, but the government had not taken this decision earlier. Now, after the recent vandalism across the country, the government led by Sheikh Hasina is going to take this decision, according to ruling party alliance sources.

Earlier, the international crimes tribunals, in their judgments, described Jamaat’s role in 1971, where some judgments said that Jamaat played a leading role in creating the Pakistani occupation army’s auxiliary forces like Al-Badr, Razakar, Al Shams, and the Peace Committee, which actively participated in atrocities against Bengalis.

The High Court, in a landmark verdict on August 1, 2013, declared Jamaat’s registration with the Election Commission illegal.

Jamaat then appealed to the appellate division and finally lost its registration in 2018.

Controversial Islamist thinker Sayyid Abul A’la Maududi founded Jamaat in undivided India under British colonial rule in 1941.

The government of independent Bangladesh, in its first decision, banned five communal outfits, including Jamaat, which not only opposed the nation’s independence but also actively helped Pakistani occupation forces commit genocide and other war crimes.

The banned parties were allowed to resume political activities during the rule of late President Ziaur Rahman after the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975.