DHAKA: Bangladesh’s Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami has appealed country wide four-day general strike against court’s decision for incapacitating registration with the Election Commission.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called initiation for a new series of protest against the High Court’s order for political seizure across the country, Associated Press reported.
Earlier on August 1, a High Court panel ruled that the Jamaat-e-Islami party’s regulations violate the constitutional provision of secularism by saying it wants to impose Sharia law.
Because of the court decision the party could be barred from taking part in the next elections.
TV stations report that party activists took to the streets, blocked roads and burned tires to enforce the shutdown across the country on Tuesday, the first day of the shutdown.
However, no major violence was reported till yet.
The court’s ruling came after calls to ban the Islamist party for opposing the country’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan.
The alleged biased International Crimes Tribunal by the secular Hasina Wajid government had already announced life imprisonment for Prof Ghulam Azam and Maulana Mujahid for their alleged support to Pakistan during separation movement of Bangladesh.
Keeping up its pace despite international reservation on loop-holed justice, the high court has imposed the ban on Jamaat e Islami of Bangladesh as its workers have been continuously holding massive protests across the country.
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