After a public spat with the army chief last week over the country’s political situation and the delay in elections, Yunus threatened to resign from his post as the chief advisor of the interim government.

The ban comes after months of systematic persecution of the former ruling party’s leaders and activists, violence against its cadres and allies, and attacks on party offices.

Women’s movements in the region have firmly united with other progressive and left movements in the struggle for a better world.

The attacks on Awami League and its former allies undertaken by the interim government also raises questions of credibility about the democratic and political reform process initiated by the interim government.

In an online address from exile, former PM Sheikh Hasina accused the interim government led by Nobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus of destroying the country by sheltering extremists.

The student movement has called the 1972 constitution, drafted after the 1971 war of liberation against Pakistan, as “Mujibist” and accused that it facilitated the prolonged rule of the Awami League.

The Workers’ Party of Bangladesh also demanded a withdrawal of false cases against left leaders including its president Rashed Khan Menon and their immediate release from prison

The interim government in Bangladesh has now arrested at least five journalists and filed cases of murder and crimes against humanity against dozens of others

Workers in Bangladesh have been protesting factory owners’ refusal to pay last month’s wages on the pretext of production shutdowns due to widespread protests against the Sheikh Hasina government

The presidents of the Workers Party of Bangladesh and the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal party have remained in police custody for over three weeks now

Rashed Khan Menon was arrested last week by the interim government in Bangladesh and accused of involvement in the death of anti-government protesters

Since Sheikh Hasina resigned, there has been a wave of targeted arrests and attacks on her party and its allies. Vijay Prashad warns that the interim government may steer the country away from the original sentiments of the protesting students