The ruling Awami League expressed its satisfaction with the verdict handed down to Jamaat leader Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed.
The party sought people’s support in the verdict’s execution.
AL Joint General Secretary Mahabub-Ul-Alam Hanif made the party’s stand clear while talking to journalists at the AL central office.
The International Crimes Tribunal 2 Wednesday ordered Mujaheed death penalty for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
He said: “The people’s desire was capital punishment and as the court upheld their aspiration, the party is happy.”
BNP silent
The main opposition BNP declined to comment on the tribunal handing down capital punishment to Mujaheed, one of the alliance’s top leaders. When asked for his comment at a press briefing at BNP’s central office, Joint General Secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi declined to speak about the judgement.
Left-leaning parties
The left-leaning political parties expressed satisfaction with the Jamaat leader’s death penalty.
In a press statement, the politburo of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, an ally of the AL-led alliance said the sentence was what people wished for.
Happy with the verdict, the WP now wants the verdict to be carried out, and also wants Jamaat to be banned because of its communal politics.
Communist Party of Bangladesh President Mujahidul Islam Selim told the Dhaka Tribune: “The tribunal’s verdict is just and it upheld people’s expectations so the verdict must be executed without delay.”
Khalequzzaman, the general secretary of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh, also expressed satisfaction with the verdict and demanded the government take immediate steps to ban Jamaat.
Islamist parties’ react
Bangladesh Khelafat Andolan’s Secretary General Muhammad Zafrullah Khan said: “We cannot believe Ali Ashan Mohammad Mujaheed was involved in criminal activities. But, if he really was and did as stated then the judgment is right.”
The chairman of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote, Maulana Abdul
Latif Nezami, said: “We think the judgement was part of a drama. Mujaheed was not involved in crimes against humanity.”