Personal Correspondent: Bangladesh Awami League's sister organization Chhatra League has been banned.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a notification banning the organization on Wednesday, October 23). Senior Secretary Dr. The matter was made known through a notification signed by Mohammad Abdul Momen.
It is said in the notification that during various periods after the independence of Bangladesh, especially during the last 15 years of dictatorial 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, tendering, rape and sexual harassment and related to this. Evidence 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.
It states that, since 15 July 2024, during the anti-discrimination student movement, Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders and activists have killed hundreds of innocent students and persons and endangered the lives of many more people by carrying out frenzied and reckless armed attacks on the protesting students and general public.
Since 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 acts.
The notification further states that the government, by virtue of sub-section (1) of Section 18 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009, has banned Bangladesh Awami League's fraternal organization 'Bangladesh Chhatra League' and in Schedule-II of the said Act, 'Bangladesh Chhatra League' has been banned. Listed reputed student organizations as banned entities. It will be effective immediately.
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