Bangladesh’s interim govt pronounces ‘proclamation of July rebellion’ quickly
Bangladesh’s interim authorities has introduced plans to arrange the ‘Proclamation of the July Rebellion’, a day after it distanced itself from a proposed declaration with an similar title that was put ahead by a pupil motion instrumental in toppling Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
“We hope inside a number of days the proclamation shall be ready with the participation and consensus of all and offered earlier than the nation,” Shafiqul Alam, press secretary to chief adviser Muhammad Yunus, had mentioned in a midnight press convention on Monday, 30 December 2024.
Addressing reporters in entrance of Yunus’ official Jamuna residence, Alam mentioned the declaration can be primarily based on the views of all collaborating college students, political events, and stakeholders, together with the Anti-Discrimination College students Motion that led to the ouster of Hasina’s Awami League regime on 5 August.
Alam mentioned the federal government took the initiative to arrange the proposed constitution to “consolidate the folks’s unity, anti-fascist spirit and a want for state reform developed by the July rebellion”.
The Anti-Discrimination College students Motion, together with the Nationwide Residents Committee, one other group led by the scholars, earlier mentioned it might announce the proclamation of the July rebellion on Tuesday, 31 December.
Nonetheless, after the federal government’s announcement, the scholars’ platform hurriedly known as an emergency assembly and advised the media that they might stage a “march for unity” on the identical venue and time.
On Tuesday, they staged a large “march for unity” rally in Dhaka, which was attended by 1000’s, principally college students, who travelled to Dhaka from completely different elements of the nation to hitch the rally. They carried banners and chanted slogans like “bury the Mujibist ideology” and “Delhi or Dhaka, Dhaka, Dhaka” alongside some Islamic slogans.
The rally demanded a declaration of the Proclamation of July rebellion by the interim authorities by 15 January 2025 and the rewriting of the 1972 Structure by the subsequent elected authorities.
The scholars’ platform concurrently requested the interim authorities to make sure trial and exemplary punishment of Hasina, now in India, and her accomplices.
