A prominent advisor to the interim government of Muhammad Yunus said on Saturday that the Awami League of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will not be allowed to participate in the election.
Mahfuz Alam, a top leader of the anti-discrimination movement, said, “Elections will only be contested among Bangladesh groups, which led a massive rebellion to top Hasina’s Awami League rule and he led him to a massive rebellion and on 5 August on 5 August Forced to escape.
Addressing a road rally in the Central Chandpur district, Alam said that only former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islam and other “Pro-Bangladesh” groups will pursue their politics in the country. He said that any of these would “establish future rule through a fair electoral process”.
“But the rehabilitation of Awami League will not be allowed in this country,” said Alam, a real minister without portfolio in the administration of Chief Advisor Younus.
Mahfuz Alam said that no election would be held until “minimum reform” was implemented and the institutions allegedly destroyed by “Fascist Hasina Sarkar” were restructured.
Initially appointed by Younus as a special assistant in his government, Alam later served as an advisor in his interim cabinet. Last year, at a function on the occasion of the United Nations General Assembly, Younus introduced Alam as a “main brain” behind a student -led student -led student, which topped the previous regime.
Awami League is out of the open political scenario since August 5, 2024, most of its leaders and Hasina’s cabinet members are in jail on either murder and other criminal charges or in jail for running at home and abroad.
Earlier, BNP said it was against banning any political party, which weighed its support for the existence of the ancient Awami League in the political field. It demanded election in the fastest time after minimal reforms, calling it a continuous process.
BNP general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir recently said that the improvement agenda made by the interim government may take 10 years and an unpublished government should not continue for a long period.
Amid speculation about the formation of a youth -led new political party by student leaders, BNP said that the interim government would have lost its credibility if the government data formed a party in power.
Meanwhile, the local government and the youth and sports advisor Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuyan, another leader of the anti-discrimination movement, in a Facebook post on Saturday, said, “Who is more advanced in the welfare of the people, efforts or debate about this. Will be
Information Affairs Advisor Nahid Islam, another student leader said that if necessary, the advisory of the government will resign from his posts to form a party and face future elections.
Last month, Younus said the next general election in the country could be by the end of 2025 or by the first half of 2026. However, he said that the election time will largely depend on political consent and boundary. Improvements that should be done before.
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