Staff Reporter:
Several political parties, including the National Citizen Party (NCP), the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), Bangladesh Socialist Party (BASAD), BASAD (Marxist), and Bangladesh JASAD, did not sign the July National Charter 2025.
The signing ceremony for the charter began at 4:35pm on Friday with the national anthem. The document was signed at 5:00pm by Prof Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the interim government and chairman of the National Consensus Commission, along with vice-chairman Prof Ali Riaz, other commission members, and leaders of various political parties.
Among the signatories, BNP was represented by Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee member Salahuddin Ahmed. From Jamaat-e-Islami, Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Muhammad Taher and Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar signed the document. Leaders from the AB Party, including Chairman Mojibur Rahman Manju and General Secretary Asaduzzaman Fuad, as well as Ganosanhati Andolan’s Chief Coordinator Zonayed Saki and Executive Coordinator Abul Hasan, also signed the charter.
However, NCP announced late on Thursday (16 October) that it would not participate in the signing, citing the absence of legal basis for the charter.
Mushfiq Us Salehin, secretary of NCP’s media cell, told journalists that such a ceremony would remain merely a formality without legal validity. The party stressed that it would participate in the charter process only after legal foundations were ensured and would join the signing procedure once its demands were met.
NCP convener Nahid Islam, while addressing the inaugural ceremony of the affiliate organisation ‘Jatiya Sramik Shakti’ in the capital’s Iskaton area on Friday, said the signing ceremony of the National July Charter is a betrayal of the nation in the name of national unity.
