Students backed legal path to ban AL: Mahfuj Alam

Information Adviser Mahfuj Alam has dismissed claims that students were not in favour of the legal process to ban the Awami League.

"Activists of a certain party are repeatedly claiming that the students were not in favour of the legal process to ban the League. This is a lie," the adviser wrote on his verified Facebook page today.

Mahfuj, however, did not mention the name of the political party he was referring to.

In the post titled "Few Words", the adviser said during his first cabinet meeting he had "clearly raised questions about several clauses of that law."

"Naturally, Nahid, Asif were on my side," he said, referring to fellow advisers Nahid Islam, now convener of National Citizen Party, and Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, youth and sports adviser to the interim government.

"When arguments were presented in favour of putting the party on trial, the response from a senior advisor was whether we should consider such a regressive example as the Nuremberg Trials," he said, adding that "later, there were discussions on several legal procedures to ban the [Awami] League as a party, and there was an initial consensus that, in order to eliminate fascism and pursue justice, we would follow those processes."

The adviser went on to say that he had talked with the law adviser on Thursday afternoon, who assured him of including a provision to try AL as a political party.

Mahfuj Alam added that they do not want to delay the election.

"The election will be held between December and June," he said.