During Sunday’s budget session of the National Parliament, ruling BNP lawmaker and state minister M Rashiduzzaman Millat cited Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman as saying that the July 2024 mass uprising took place under the leadership of Tarique Rahman. Millat added that the opposition leader had earlier expressed gratitude to Tarique Rahman for his intellectual and successful leadership during the movement, which he said brought the nation to its current position.

In response, opposition leader Shafiqur Rahman rejected the idea of a single mastermind behind the movement. He stated that after August 5, he had clarified that the success of the uprising was due to collective leadership, and all those involved deserved respect and love. The debate followed earlier remarks by interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, who in a U.S. event had named Mahfuz Alam as the mastermind of the 2024 uprising.

Tarique Rahman also dismissed Yunus’s claim, asserting that there was no single mastermind and that credit should go to Bangladesh’s youth and its 180 million people.