An all-party meeting will be held on Thursday (January 16) over the July Mass Uprising Proclamation, interim government adviser Mahfuj Alam has said.
He disclosed it while addressing a press conference organized by the Chief Adviser's Press Wing at Foreign Service Academy in the capital on Tuesday (January 14).
Mahfuj Alam said, "The venue of talks has not been decided yet. Unscheduled talks have taken place with the political parties on the draft proclamation. We have held unscheduled discussion with different political parties including BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami, and Ganatantra Mancha, and representatives of different occupations."
Earlier in the evening on January 10 last, adviser Mahfuj Alam told a press briefing at the Foreign Service Academy in the capital that the government would not announce any proclamation. Rather, the government is assisting in preparation of the July Proclamation. "The proclamation will come on the basis of consensus of all quarters," he said.
The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and Jatiya Nagorik Committee wanted to release the July Mass Uprising Proclamation at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on December 31 last. Many questions over the proclamation arose in the country's political arena at that time. Different quarters also raised questions about why the issue of July Proclamation was brought at the forefront suddenly and what would be its implications. At that time, the interim government's press wing mentioned that the government was not associated with the initiative.
However, Chief Adviser's press secretary Shafiqul Alam told journalists at an urgently convened press conference that the interim government had taken an initiative to prepare a draft proclamation of July Uprising on the basis of national consensus.
At that night, the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and Jatiya Nagorik Committee announced 'March for Unity' at the Central Shaheed Minar on December 31. The interim government was given a 15-day ultimatum to declare the July Proclamation by January 15. In this regard, the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and Jatiya Nagorik Committee distributed leaflets and make contacts with people door-to-door across the country to mobilise public opinions.
