Awami League’s all activities must be banned: Nahid 

National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener Nahid Islam has said, “Even nine months after the July revolution, we are still on the streets demanding the ban of Awami League, which is very sad. This is our collective failure. People took to the streets to try the Awami League. All their political and organizational activities must be banned”.

He was addressing a protest rally at the south gate of Baitul Mukarram on Friday, demanding the trial of the Awami League for mass killings during the July uprising and a ban on the party's political activities. 

Nahid Islam said, “All the killings of the last 16 years, including during the July uprising, must be tried. The Awami League committed genocide in all the movements in the last 16 years. It killed scholars who took to the fields, it committed murder in the anti-quota movement, the anti-VAT movement and even the movement for safe roads.”

He said not just in Bangladesh but the UN reports have also clearly stated that the July massacre was carried out at the instruction of Sheikh Hasina and planned by the AL.

Top NCP leaders including Joint Convener Sarwar Tusher, Member Secretary Akhter Hossen, and chief organisers Hasnat Abdullah and Sarjis Alam addressed the rally.

The protest rally was organised by the Dhaka metropolitan chapter of the NCP.

Leaders and activists of the party started to converge at the venue shortly after the Jumma (Friday) prayers.