The current caretaker government of Bangladesh has no intention of banning the Awami League party, pointed out the newly posted Home Minister Sakhawat Hossain.
Bangladeshi new home minister Sakhawat Hossain categorically ruled out chances of banned ousted premier Sheikh Hasinas Awami League party and said that the new interim government of Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus now running the state has no such evil design.
Responding to the allegations that its government may soon ban Hasina’s political organization, the fresh Home Minister of the violence-plagued South Asian nation, Sakhawat Hossain, said, “The party is not without its positives; it has worked for Bangladesh a lot.”
Saying this, Sakhawat Hossain said, ‘When the election comes, they should contest the elections.’.
This is in a week when Bangladesh former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had been ousted in what can be described as an upset.
The country’s leader stepped down at the age of 76 as the prime minister on August 5 as protesters filled the capital Dhaka to demand the end of her autocratic rule.
Her government was said to have systematically tortured and killed her critics, opposition supporters, and political rebels, estimating the death toll to be at about 2,000 during her fifteen years in power.
The military declared her resignation as the Prime Minister and accepted the students’ protest of demanding a leader of the caretaker government who is Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.
Possibly someone with the ambition and the power to dispel chaos and initiate the process of democratization. Muhammad Yunus came back from Europe on Thursday to head a temporary government. Yunus, 84, took office as ‘chief advisor’ to the ‘caretaker government’, which alongside Yunus consists of civilians, excluding one retired brigadier general, and has expressed his desire to leave the army rule and bring elections ‘within a few months’.
