AL’s participation in polls: Anti-Discrimination Student Movement condemns Badiul Alam’s remark

The Anti-Discrimination Student Motion has condemned Electoral Machine Reform Fee chief Badiul Alam Majumder’s whisper that there isn’t any longer any obstacle for Awami League to take part in the upcoming nationwide election.

“The Awami League is accountable for several genocides in Bangladesh and has been involved in a broad quantity of human rights violations over the last 16 years, along with disappearances, murders, and extrajudicial killings. Permitting a celebration that has undermined the electoral machine of Bangladesh to take part in future elections goes towards the will of the of us,” mentioned the student motion in a statement this day (19 December).

Addressing journalists’ request whether or no longer the Awami League will seemingly be ready to take part in the elections, Badiul Alam, speaking at an event in Rangpur the outdated day, mentioned, “Indulge in you, we are also waiting to ogle this. I don’t look any boundaries. I don’t order any boundaries are being created for them.”

He added, “We need an inclusive election. Those that are animated to affix polls may well quiet be ready to form so with out any hindrance. There’ll seemingly be no obstructions. I’m hoping all occasions will set apart close fragment in the elections.”

The Anti-Discrimination Student Motion requested Badiul Alam Majumder to retract his statement and set apart close crucial actions to pause the Awami League from taking fragment in the elections.

“We oppose Awami League’s participation in any political actions. If the Awami League is allowed to take part in elections, it may per chance perchance per chance undermine the sacrifices made by the martyrs of the July uprising,” the organisation mentioned in the media launch.