CNN Central News & Network–ITDC India Epress/ITDC News Bhopal: Bangladesh’s interim government Wednesday revoked a ban on the rightwing Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, less than a month after it was outlawed by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
“It (lifting the ban) will come under effect immediately,” the Home Ministry said in a gazette notification, noting that there was no particular evidence against the organisation.
The erstwhile Awami League government led by Hasina had imposed a ban on Jamaat on August 1, 2024, accusing the Islamist party as a militant and terrorist organisation. The government blamed Jamaat’s student wing for inciting chaos over a quota system for government jobs.
Welcoming the interim government’s decision, Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Shafiqur Rahman, called for an end to the politics of hatred and division in Bangladesh.
“We want the politics of hatred to be buried… it shouldn’t rise again. We want the politics of division to be buried, he told journalists.
Rahman said that Jamaat-e-Islami does not support the division of the nation over any issue, saying, In all cases, we want the nation to be united.