The Bangladesh interim government chief adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus, announced that it was the desire of the people of nation that July Declaration would get constitutional recognition and the martyrs of the July uprising would be recognised as national heroes as he read out the document at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad complex in Dhaka on Tuesday.
Professor Yunus unveiled the July Declaration at the ceremony marking the first anniversary of the July Mass Uprising Day.
He said that the document was written to reflect the aspirations of the people of Bangladesh at the event of the victory in the mass uprising of August 5, 2024.
鈥楾he people of Bangladesh have expressed their desire that the student-people uprising of 2024 will get proper state and constitutional recognition and that the July Declaration will feature in the schedule of the reformed constitution as framed by the government formed through the next national election,鈥� he read.
The document said that the people of Bangladesh also expressed their desire to recognise the martyrs of the July uprising as national heroes and provide necessary legal protection to the students and people participating in the movement.
The July Declaration unveiling programme began at 5:00pm.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Professor Mia Golam Parwar, Ganosamhati Andolan chief coordinator Zonayed Saki and others participated in the event.
Full text of July Declaration. Source: CA press wing.
