'Impose ban on activities of anti-liberation forces'

Bangladesh Tariqat Federation (BTF), a political organisation, yesterday demanded ban on the activities of political parties, including Jamaat-e-Islami, which are incompetent to get registered as per the registration act for political parties introduced by the government.
BTF Leaders placed the demands at a roundtable at the National Press Club in the city moderated by its President Syed Nazibul Bashar Maizbhandari.
Veteran leaders, lawyers, teachers, writers and Islamic scholars expressed their solidarity with the demands.
The speakers said unless the roots of anti-liberation forces, including Jamaat-e-Islami, are uprooted socially and politically from the country, the ideology of the historic liberation war be established.
BTF also made a nine-point declaration at the discussion. In the declaration, they called on all political parties for not making any alliance with any militant organisations and called on to boycott them.
It alleged that Jamaat is now involved in conspiracies against registration act and trying to foil the next general polls, as it knows that it would be declared incompetent for registration as its constitution goes against the basic structure of the country's constitution.
BTF also demanded ban on the activities of Jatiya Muktijoddha Parishad and Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Awami League presidium member Amir Hossain Amu said mobilisation of greater public support is a must to realise the demands for the trial of war criminals and declaring Jamaat banned in the country.
Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique said the anti-liberation forces are involved in the conspiracy against the country since its independence in 1971 and it is disgraceful that they ruled the country for a long time after the independence.
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal Chairman Hasanul Haq Inu, barrister Tania Amir, Prof Harun-or-Rashid, Prof Abul Barkat and Bangladesh Jaker Party Secretary General Munsi Abdul Latif spoke at the programme.