Dhaka, Feb. 12 -- As Bangladesh moves in to vote for the upcoming 13th national parliamentary elections, and the referendum on the so-called July Charter, on Thursday, the formerly ruling and currently-banned Awami League has slammed the charter and the vote as a "sham", noting that most of the vague document was formed largely without the participation of all registered political parties.
The July Charter - formed post the mass uprising in 2024 - is a vague charter which seeks to overhaul the constitutional character of Bangladesh by replacing the existing tenets of socialism, democracy, secularism, and nationalism, as per the ideas of 'Bangabandhu' former PM Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, with a new school of thought deriving from the July Upris...