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.

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

Since Hasina stepped down on August 5, there have been increasing incidents of violence against members of her party and symbols of the Liberation War.

Vijay Prashad reflexiona sobre las últimas semanas de protestas y convulsiones en Bangladesh, que culminaron con la dimisión de la Primera Ministra Sheikh Hasina.

The protests, initially led by students demanding reforms in the quota system in government jobs, took a violent turn in the last weeks of July