AL wanted to use Jamaat ban ploy to crush student-people revolution: Asif Nazrul

The ousted Awami League (AL) government did not ban Jamaat-e-Islami from any policy decision but wanted to use it as a ploy to brutally crush the student-people revolution, Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul said today (28 August).

“The narrative that they gave to ban Jamaat mentioning it as a terrorist organisation was not true. The Ministry of Home Affairs has scrutinized that they (AL) had termed Jamaat-BNP as terrorist and militant organizations and suddenly published the gazette, as part of their narrative, declaring Jamaat as a terrorist organization,” he told journalists at the ministry.

The law adviser said, “We cannot become a part of their false narrative, where the student-people revolution was termed as terrorist activities. They put all the blame for that on the shoulder of a party and banned it.”

“We cannot become part of any unfair narrative of a party, which got discarded and defeated in the student-people uprising. Awami League had banned Jamaat-e-Islami at a particular time with a particular goal. Jamaat had pleaded to withdraw the ban and following that the Home Ministry gave its decision,” he added.