Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis Amir Maulana Mamunul Haque said that the 2013 Shapla Chattar movement, the 2021 anti-Modi protests, and the demonstrations following Allama Sayeedi’s death sentence were all part of the people’s struggle for rights. He made these remarks on Saturday at 2 p.m. during a divisional rally held at the Railway Krishnachura Chattar in the city.

At the same event, Mia Golam Porwar questioned why the BNP refused to accept the referendum results. He stated that the main reason was the BNP’s rejection of the proposal by the 11-party alliance and the Consensus Commission to balance power between the president and the prime minister by limiting the latter’s authority. According to him, the BNP wanted to retain the prime minister’s sole power to appoint key constitutional positions such as the judiciary, the Anti-Corruption Commission, and the Public Service Commission.

Porwar added that the July Charter proposed separating the roles of party chief and prime minister, but the BNP opposed it, believing that such separation would prevent them from exercising the same level of control as previous authoritarian governments.