A draft of the July Proclamation has been sent to political parties, identifying the mass uprising of last July as the “Student-People’s Uprising 2024”, and proposing formal state and constitutional recognition of the events. On Wednesday, BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed said: “We’ve received the draft of the July Proclamation. Since, after nearly a decade of military dictatorship, a mass movement culminated in the 1990 Mass Uprising, and a parliamentary system was reinstated in 1991;And6. Since, the regime turned Bangladesh into what the draft terms a fascist, mafia, and failed state, tarnishing its international image;And10. Since, the draft states that the exercise of popular sovereignty through mass uprising is politically and legally justified and has international legitimacy;And20.
