The government has banned Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student organisation Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir by an executive order.
The Public Security Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a notification in this regard on Thursday, signed by Public Security Division Secretary Jahangir Alam.
Earlier in the day, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq said the gazette notification banning Jamaat-e-Islami and all its front organisations would be published shortly.
"I think the Home Ministry will publish the gazette notification in this regard shortly. The government decided to ban Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Chhatra Shibir and all their front organisation's actions in line with section 18/1 of the Anti-Terrorism Act," he said while talking to reporters at the ministry, reports BSS.
The minister, a senior jurist himself, said the home ministry, after complying with all the legal obligations, sent the matter to the law ministry.
"They sent the matter to the legislative division of the Law Ministry this morning and we sent it back to Home Ministry after vetting," Anisul added.
Back on July 30, the minister had said Jamaat would be banned by July 31, adding, "When you ban any party, you have to do it through an executive order. I would hold a meeting with the Home Minister in this regard a little later and would decide on legal ways to do this."
Anisul Huq said the country's law and order situation will improve if Jamaat and Shibir get banned.
When asked whether the government is going to create a new problem by banning Jamaat and Shibir amid the ongoing movement, the law minister said the government has evidence that the brutality that has been going on since July 16, the violence which is going on in the name of quota reform movement, are being carried out by Jamaat, Shibir, BNP and Chhatra Dal men.
The law minister said this a day after the Awami League-led 14-party alliance unanimously recommended the ban of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir.
