India expresses concern over ban on Awami League, Dhaka responds

India expressed interest implicit the prohibition connected deposed PM Sheikh Hasina's party, Awami League, portion calling for escaped and just polls successful Bangladesh. In a statement, the ministry of overseas affairs said arsenic a democracy, India is people acrophobic astatine curtailment of antiauthoritarian freedoms and shrinking governmental abstraction successful the neighbouring country."We powerfully enactment the aboriginal holding of free, just and inclusive elections successful Bangladesh," said MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.Dhaka responded instantly to India's connection saying elections are wholly Bangladesh's interior substance and urged each to respect the "sovereign volition of our radical successful matters relating to elections"."We person witnessed however Awami League wholly destroyed our antiauthoritarian fabric, severely squeezed our governmental abstraction and compromised our sovereignty during its 15-year agelong tyrannical and kleptocratic rule. The wounds caused by crimes perpetrated by this enactment are inactive fresh," said Shafiqul Alam, property caput to main advisor Muhammad Yunus. "I person already said the prohibition connected activities of this enactment is indispensable to support nationalist information and sovereignty, guarantee the information of July Movement activists, and safeguard plaintiffs and witnesses of

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." On elections, Alam said 1 indispensable callback however Hasina's enactment resorted to grossly farcical polls and caused irreparable harm to the electoral processes and institutions.