"Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, has scored major wins in student council elections at two of the country's major public universities. ICS won 20 out of 25 seats in the Jahangirnagar University Central Students' Union (JUCSU) election just days after the ICS-backed United Students' Alliance secured 23 of 28 seats in Dhaka University, including the top positions of vice president, general secretary and assistant general secretary, according to local reports."
"The student elections were the first polls to take place in the Muslim-majority nation following a student-led uprising that led to the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August 2024. Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir had been banned by Hasina's government under an anti-terrorism law. But last year Bangladesh's interim government revoked the ban, saying it did not find evidence of its involvement in "terrorist activities.""
"Jamaat-e-Islami had sided with Pakistan during Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971. The independence movement was led by Awami League, Sheikh Hasina's party, which at the time was led by her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Later, during Hasina's tenure, top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami were either executed or jailed on charges of crimes against humanity and other serious crimes in 1971. The party was banned from contesting national elections for nearly a decade."
Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) won 20 of 25 seats in the Jahangirnagar University Central Students' Union. The ICS-backed United Students' Alliance captured 23 of 28 seats at Dhaka University, including vice president, general secretary and assistant general secretary. These student elections were the first since a student-led uprising that led to the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August 2024. Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing had been banned under an anti-terrorism law, but the interim government revoked the ban last year after saying it found no evidence of involvement in "terrorist activities." Jamaat-e-Islami previously sided with Pakistan in 1971 and faced bans and prosecutions, but has been allowed to organize again while the interim administration has restricted Awami League activities.
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