After the fall of the Awami League government, a caretaker government led by Yunus assumed power in Bangladesh on August 8, 2024.
Recently, Yunus’s government formed a commission to reform the constitution. However, this commission did not include any representatives from indigenous, minority, or non-Muslim communities. The country’s general minority and indigenous communities demanded the inclusion of the widely respected Chakma King, Devasish Roy, in this commission, but the government ignored this request.
Besides the commission of the constitution, the government also formed five more commissions for various sectors. Sadly, the story remains the same- no Indigenous or non-Muslims were included.
Recently, Raja Devasish Roy shared his thoughts on the government’s commission in a Facebook post. His status is provided in its below.
“DISAPPOINTING COMPOSITION OF REFORM COMMISSIONS OF INTERIM GOVERNMENT OF BANGLADESH
The composition of the six Reform Commissions of the Interim Government of Bangladesh led by Dr. Md. Yunus, as declared recently, is extremely disappointing.
Representatives of indigenous peoples, religious minorities, women and other marginalised or disadvantaged groups, are either totally absent or visibly inadequate.
This is a serious blot on the image of a government led by a Nobel laureate.
I would like to hope that these omissions will be corrected soon, by amending the commissions’ compositions. Given the short time given for the commissions’ work, this has to happen fast, if at all.
If not, the unfulfillment of the dreams, declarations and visions of a more democratic and inclusive Bangladesh, that came forth from the student-led movement against autocracy in August 2024, will drag down the post-August struggle to the level of other mundane so-called people’s movements in Bangladesh, which were sabotaged by un-democratic, non-secular, communal, parochial, patriarchal and other reactionary elements.
I would like to hope, against hope, that our valiant students, and our citizenry at large, will not permit this to happen (I humbly request someone to please translate this into Bengali.)”
You can see Raja Devasish Roy’s FACEBOOK profile here.
