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Bangladesh connected Saturday (June 20, 2026) issued a nationwide information alert implicit imaginable unrest ahead of the founding day of the now-disbanded Awami League, the enactment of deposed premier curate Sheikh Hasina.
The enactment was disbanded by the Muhammad Yunus-led interim authorities aft Hasina’s authorities was toppled connected August 5, 2024, pursuing a convulsive student-led thoroughfare protestation dubbed the July Uprising.
"We person quality accusation that Awami League whitethorn effort to make unrest and instability successful the state surrounding June 23,” Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said portion addressing a property conference.
Law enforcement agencies person been directed to enforce maximum vigilance during the adjacent fewer days and instrumentality each indispensable measures to forestall immoderate acts of sabotage, unrest, oregon attempts to disrupt nationalist bid surrounding the occasion, helium said.
Ahmed besides said that the authorities is intimately monitoring the situation, and the incumbent authorities does not see the Awami League a governmental enactment and alternatively treats it arsenic a "mafia organisation".
Earlier connected Friday (June 19, 2026), successful an interior connection to its field-level offices and units, the constabulary office said that the leaders and activists belonging to the Awami League mightiness effort to hoist enactment flags astatine section offices and bring retired processions carrying banners to people its founding day successful antithetic parts of the country.
It added that specified activities could trigger confrontations with activists of different governmental outfits, particularly members of the student-led National Citizen Party, creating a hazard of deterioration successful instrumentality and order.
However, Dhaka Metropolitan Police ruled retired immoderate circumstantial information menace but said they remained connected precocious alert.
The Awami League has truthful acold issued nary notification connected their online platforms, but immoderate media reports suggest that the enactment activists were directed to hoist nationalist and enactment flags astatine enactment offices and signifier flash thoroughfare processions.
According to media reports, the constabulary arrested astatine slightest 103 Awami League leaders and activists in targeted operations crossed large cities, including the superior Dhaka till Saturday.
On June 2, the constabulary successful the southeastern larboard metropolis of Chattogram arrested 68 leaders and activists, chiefly charging them with plotting acts of sabotage and holding unauthorised thoroughfare marches.
The Awami League is Bangladesh’s oldest governmental party, founded successful 1949 and led its 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan.
The interim authorities banned Awami League from participating successful the elections that were held successful February.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party came to powerfulness and Tarique Rahman was sworn successful arsenic the premier curate of Bangladesh.
