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Published : 07 Nov 2025, 05:09 PM
National Citizen Party (NCP) Convenor Nahid Islam has said that all participants of the July Uprising should be in the next parliament.
He made the remark on Friday afternoon at the launching of the University Teachers' Forum at the Shamsur Rahman Auditorium of Bangla Academy.
“The upcoming parliament will constitute a reform council. Initiatives will be taken for a new constitution. That’s why all participants of the uprising should be present in the parliament,” he said.
The incumbent government initiated many reformation steps after the past Awami League government was thrown out on August 5 last year by a student-led Uprising.
The July Charter was signed after a year of dialogue, discussions, and debates on desired reformations. Nahid Islam declared his commitment to get a legal basis for the July Charter and move towards the next elections.
“There will be no ‘note of dissent’ in the July Charter. What has been agreed upon will stand; the rest will be decided by the people,” he said.
Nahid also remarked that the uprising stemmed from economic crises, which hit the youth hard. He said that the youth were left with two options only—either join government jobs or travel abroad for livelihood, but the quota system obstructed entry to government jobs.
He also urged political parties to come forward with a realistic plan to empower and employ youths.
Nahid thinks a good plan will have to attract investment and inspire entrepreneurship and employment creation. He called for education sector reformation.
Tracing the historical context of the emergence of the current education system from colonial influence, he said, “It’s not just universities; our entire state, legal system, and all other institutions were established within a colonial framework. We lost our previous education system.”
Universities are going further away from society and culture, he said, calling for efforts to restore the connection.
Nahid said that the situation deteriorated over the past 16 years with favoritism, nepotism, and criminalisation of institutions at the cost of meritocracy. He recalled his university’s vice chancellor introducing new departments to employ his relatives.
He said that the “fascist” structure still exists.
“No commission has been formed for education,” he said, adding that everyone is interested in discussion that concerns election and politics.
“But a consensus still evaded on what all those discussions have been taking place about,” he said.
Nahid said that uprisings, elections, and consensus commission would yield nothing without having some real changes in existing systems.
Professor Sirajul Islam of Dhaka University has been named as convener of the newly introduced University Teachers' Forum while Dr. Shamim Hamidi of Dhaka International University was appointed as the member secretary.
