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July Uprising's core goals unmet: Jamaat-e-Islami leader alleges partisan appointments, broken promises

From Daily Star · () English

Translated from English, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

At a glance

Interview Named sources Context piece
  • Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar stated that the core aspirations of the July Uprising remain unfulfilled two years later.
  • Porwar alleges the government is pursuing constitutional amendments instead of fundamental reforms, pushing the country toward authoritarianism.
  • He highlighted national unity against authoritarianism and corruption as the uprising's main achievement, despite unfulfilled expectations.

Two years after the July Uprising, its fundamental goals remain unmet, according to Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar. In an interview with The Daily Star, Porwar asserted that the government has sidelined the reform agenda, which was endorsed by the people through a referendum and the July Charter.

The July Uprising of 2024 was an unprecedented event in the history of popular uprisings and revolutions anywhere in the world. People from all walks of life in the country know what the aspirations of this movement were. Those aspirations centred on fundamentally transforming the existing state system and constitutional framework and building a humane and discrimination-free state.

— Mia Golam PorwarDiscussing the July Uprising's goals and significance.

Porwar criticized the government's focus on constitutional amendments over essential reforms, warning that this path leads the country back toward authoritarianism. He recalled the July Uprising of 2024 as an unprecedented event driven by a desire to transform the state system and establish a humane, discrimination-free society.

The National Consensus Commission, formed after the uprising, worked for nine months and gathered 166 reform proposals from 33 political parties. Consensus was reached on 84 issues, culminating in the July Charter signed on October 17, 2025. Porwar believes this charter reflects the aspirations of Bangladesh's 180 million people.

If you ask what the greatest achievement was, I would say that a national unity emerged against authoritarianism, fascism, repression, corruption, and money laundering. Over the past 17 to 18 years, people's ownership of the state had been undermined. People united in the struggle to restore sovereignty. This national unity was the greatest success of the July Uprising.

— Mia Golam PorwarIdentifying the main achievement of the July Uprising.

He identified the emergence of national unity against authoritarianism, fascism, repression, corruption, and money laundering as the uprising's greatest achievement. This unity aimed to restore the people's ownership of the state, which he felt had been eroded over the previous 17 to 18 years. Despite this unity, Porwar lamented that the people's expectations remain unfulfilled. He also recounted his own experience of being arrested by Detective Branch police shortly after expressing Jamaat's support for the movement and being released after the prime minister fled the country.

Unfortunately, however, those expectations have yet to be fulfilled.

— Mia Golam PorwarExpressing disappointment that the uprising's goals remain unmet.
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Originally published by Daily Star in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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