DHAKA:
Almost eight months after the time government lifted a ban on it, Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Sunday issued an order to the Election Commission to reinstate the right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami’s party membership, opening the means for its involvement in upcoming elections. According to court officials, the SC’s appealing division, led by main justice Syed Refaat Ahmed, instructed the payment to recover the group’s membership. According to the apex judge, the EC had the option of deciding whether Jamaat could use its customary “scale” symbol to challenge elections. In accordance with a HC decision, EC removed Jamaat’s membership in December 2018, which was opposed to Bangladesh’s 1971 independence from Pakistan. The Jamaat-e-Islami’s membership was canceled by SC in 2013 because it was unfit to run for national elections. In a harsh bulk movement led by a platform called Kids against Discrimination ( SAD), former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s government imposed a total ban on the party weeks before her resignation on August 5, 2024. SAD was supported by Jamaat and a number of other events. The group filed an appeal to the 2013 court order that had outlawed it following Hasina’s ouster. The ten-year lawful war is over now. After this conviction, we hope Bangladesh may have a lively parliament. One of Jamaat’s leading attorneys, Mohammad Shishir Manir, stated,” We hope voters will vote for the Jamaat candidate of their choice today.”
