The National Consensus Commission on Sunday got closed to finalising the recommendations on how to implement the July National Charter 2025, with the provisions for approving the 84 reform proposals, including the establishment of an upper house, within the nine months of forming the 13th Jatiya Sangsad.
The consensus commission is likely to submit its recommendations to interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today.
Without elaborating the recommendations, NCC vice-chair Professor Ali Riaz told 抖阴精品 on Sunday evening, 鈥楾he commission hopes to submit the July Charter implementation mechanism tomorrow [Monday].鈥�
Formally beginning its task on February 15, the commission held three rounds of dialogue with more than 30聽 political parties to formulate the state reform-oriented July Charter.
The charter was signed by 25 political parties, the NCC members, and the chief adviser.
During the signing ceremony on October 17, the commission promised to submit the charter implementation mechanism to the interim government by October 31.
The national Consensus Commission, NCC insiders said, had decided that the implementation of the charter would begin with the issuance of the 鈥楯uly National Charter Implementation (Reform of Constitution) Order鈥� while its legal basis would be the 2024 July uprising.
Under this order, an ordinance would be issued to conduct a referendum with a single question whether the voters support the order and the reform proposals contained in the charter or not.
If the positive responses win, a constitution reform assembly, which would be elected simultaneously with the 13th Jatiya Sangsad, must implement the charter鈥檚 reform proposals within the 270 days of its formation.
The full implementation process would be outlined in the order.
The 84 reform proposals outlined in the charter would also be included in the order as an annex. However, the order would not mention any dissenting notes from political parties, the commission sources said.
The July Charter contains more than 50 dissenting notes on 84 reform proposals.
Political parties, including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the Islami Andolan Bangladesh, Gano Forum, and several left-leaning parties, had registered dissenting notes.聽
For implementing the reform proposals within the 270 days formation of the constitution reform assembly, the NCC expert panel opined that the execution of the reform proposals by the next parliament should become mandatory once they are approved in the referendum.
However, sources said that the commission would present an alternative mechanism regarding the enactment of the reform proposals.
The alternative option would be that the proposals should be presented as a bill by the interim government before the referendum, provisioning that the reform proposals, if not approved within the 270 days, would automatically become effective.聽聽
The interim government would decide whether the referendum would be held simultaneously with the Jatiya Sangsad elections or beforehand.
Similarly, it would be up to the interim government to decide whether the July Charter Implementation Order should be issued by the president or the chief adviser.
If the referendum is held on the same day as the national elections and the reform proposals are approved, political parties would publish their candidate lists for the upper house within 15 days.
The upper house would be formed after the charter鈥檚 reform proposals are adopted within 270 days, as per the commission鈥檚 draft recommendations.
