Bangladesh's political charter, a roadmap for constitutional reforms aimed at strengthening governance and limiting executive power, incorporates demands from protesters in the 2024 uprisings that ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and has broad party backing, but its non-binding nature and uncertainty over which party will win the February elections leave a risk of renewed unrest if the next government fails to implement the reforms. On Oct. 20, a 13-member delegation of ''July fighters'' -- people who took part in the July 2024 uprisings that led to the fall of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government and were injured or lost family members in the violence -- met with the National Consensus Commission, calling for legal protection and the issuance of official identification cards recognizing them as ''July injured heroes.'' Their demands followed protests on Oct. 17, at which demonstrators, mostly from the July Fighters group, clashed with police outside...
