The interim government has banned the organisation due to its alleged role in violent activities he government has banned the Awami League's student affiliate Bangladesh Chhatra League.
The decision was announced on Wednesday through a gazette published by the Public Security Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The gazette said, "Since the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the Bangladesh Awami League, has been involved in various public security-disrupting activities, including murder, torture, dormitory-based oppression, seat trading in student hostels, tender manipulation, rape, and sexual harassment, particularly during the last 15 years of autocratic rule, and since documented evidence of these activities has been published in all major media outlets of the country, and as some of its leaders and activists have been found guilty in court in connection with certain terrorist incidents; and since, during the anti-discrimination student movement that began on Jul 15, 2024, Chhatra League leaders and activists launched a frenzied and reckless armed attack on protesting students and ordinary citizens, killing hundreds of innocent students and individuals and endangering many more lives; and since the government possesses sufficient evidence that even after the fall of the Awami League government on Aug 5, the Bangladesh Chhatra League remained involved in conspiratorial, destructive, and provocative activities against the state, as well as various terrorist actions.
Therefore, the government, under the powers vested in it by section 18, sub-section (1) of the 'Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009,' hereby declares the student wing of the Awami League, Bangladesh Chhatra League, as a banned organisation, and lists the student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League as a prohibited entity under Schedule-2 of the said Act." —bdnews24.com
