The government will ban Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami by tomorrow through an executive order, said law minister Anisul Huq said on Tuesday.

He said that he had been ordered by Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina to take necessary steps by tomorrow in this regard.

‘I will hold a meeting with the home minister within a short period to make a decision,’ Anisul told reporters at the secretariat in Dhaka.

He added that he would disclose which legal process would be followed once a decision was made.

‘The quota protesters said they did not participate in violence,’ said the law minister, claiming that activists of Jamaat, Islami Chhatra Shibir, BNP and the extremists of Chhatra Dal carried out acts of violence.

The decision to ban Jamaat-e-Islami was taken at a meeting of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League and its allies at the official residence of prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday.

The government blamed the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its Islamist ally Jamaat for the violence in recent student protests seeking reform in the quota for public services.

The Jamaat-e-Islami condemned and protested against the decision to ban the party in 14 party meeting.

In a statement, issued by Jamaat chief Shafiqur Rahman on Tuesday, the party called the decision ‘illegal, extrajudicial and unconstitutional’.

‘Awami League-led 14-party alliance is a political platform. A political party or alliance cannot make any decisions about another political party. The law and constitution of Bangladesh has not given this jurisdiction to anyone. If a party or coalition bans another party, one party will continue to ban another party. Then there will be no such thing as state discipline,’ the statement reads.