Dhaka, Oct. 18 -- Expressing both hope and caution, Professor Ali Riaz, Vice President of the National Consensus Commission, underscored the importance of unity in diversity at the signing ceremony of the July National Charter 2025 on Friday afternoon at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban. "There will be differences in opinion.

Without differences in opinion, politics cannot be democratic," Professor Riaz said. "There will be differences in views and in paths, but we must unite on one common ground - and that ground is democracy."

Using a metaphor of rivers merging at an estuary, he added, "Many streams should merge at the estuary, so that we can say, though there are many streams, the estuary is one - and that is to build a d...