The National Consensus Commission is set to share the final version of the July National Charter 2025 with 30 political parties today.
The commission on Monday backtracked from its earlier plan to add a new proposal for repealing the constitution鈥檚 Article 4A in the final version.
Ahead of the charter signing ceremony, scheduled for October 17, 30 political parties have finalised their representatives for signing the charter, commission officials said.
NCC vice-chair Professor Ali Riaz told 抖阴精品, 鈥極nly the final version of the July Charter will be shared with the political parties on Tuesday. We will not take further feedback from the parties.鈥�
He also disclosed that the total number of reform points would be 80 -- instead of 84 -- as some proposals for reforming the Anti-Corruption Commission had been merged.
The charter implementation method, which is not a part of the charter document, would be shared with the interim government before October 17, he said.
Formally beginning its task on February 15, the聽 National Consensus Commission formulated the July Charter on September 10 after holding three rounds of dialogue with political parties till finalising the document formally at the October 8 meeting.
On October 9, the commission sent a letter to 30 political parties, seeking their opinions on the proposal for repealing the Article 4A of the constitution.
Article 4A of the constitution guides preserving and displaying the portrait of the 鈥楩ather of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman鈥� at the offices of the president, the prime minister, the speaker, the chief justice.
The article also guides preserving and displaying the portrait at the head and branch offices of all government, semi-government, autonomous, statutory public entities, educational institutions, and the embassies and missions of Bangladesh abroad.
The Awami League regime, which was ousted on August 5 in 2024 amid the July uprising, added the Article 4A to the constitution through its 15th amendment on June 30, 2011.
The Socialist Party of Bangladesh, Communist Party of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod, and the SPB (Marxist) opposed the commission鈥檚 new plan.
About the commission鈥檚 backtracking from adding the new plan to the charter, Ali Riaz said that the next parliament would decide about this issue.
About the preparations for the October 17 charter signing ceremony, the chief adviser鈥檚 special assistant for reform, Monir Haidar, said that 30 political parties had already confirmed their representatives鈥� names who would sign the document.
He said that 3,000 guests would be present in the ceremony, planned to be held at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad in the capital.
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, also the chair of the commission, accompanied by Ali Riaz, would host the signing ceremony.
Monir further said that there would be a 鈥榤asterpiece鈥� of the July Charter with its three parts: a prologue with the historical context of the reform initiatives, a list of reform proposals, and a covenant.
Thirty copies of the covenant would be presented to the party representatives for their endorsement. Later, the party representatives would also sign the masterpiece, he said.
Cultural affairs adviser Mostofa Sarwar Farooki was present at the JS South Plaza for monitoring the preparations on Monday.
He said that the ceremony would feature two segments: a signing event in the first segment and a projection mapping and documentary show in the second segment.
