Chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary Shafiqul Alam on Sunday said that the government had kept the Awami League鈥檚 activities under monitoring as the interim government had banned the party鈥檚 activities.
鈥榃e are always monitoring whether the Awami League, activities of which have been banned, is trying to create any instability from anywhere,鈥� Shafiqul told reporters at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka as he was asked about the Awami League operating 鈥榩arty office鈥� in Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, for months.聽
The Bangladesh Awami League has opened a 鈥榩arty office鈥� and has been operating for months from the office at a commercial complex in a busy suburb on the outskirts of Kolkata, reported BBC Bangla on August 8.
According to the report, the place has become the meeting ground for top-tier leaders of the Awami League and its affiliated organisations, who fled to India for shelter after the July uprising that led to the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime in early August last year.
The interim government has kept the activities of the Awami League suspended until the trial of the party and its leaders over atrocities during the July Mass Uprising.
There is no signboard, no picture of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina or Bangladesh鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, anywhere outside or inside the room, reported the British media outlet.
The Awami League has been run from India for about a year and the party鈥檚 leader, Sheikh Hasina, lives somewhere near Delhi, while the majority of its leaders live in the areas surrounding Kolkata, the report mentioned.
On May 12, the interim government issued a gazette banning all activities of the Awami League and its affiliated, allied and like-minded organisations until the completion of the trials of the party and its leaders by the International Crimes Tribunal.
Awami League president and deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India for shelter on August 5, 2024 amid the student-led mass uprising.
