{"id":7143,"date":"2026-01-27T15:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7143"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:38:10","slug":"ali-riaz-july-charter-will-guarantee-religious-rights-for-every-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=7143","title":{"rendered":"Ali Riaz: \u2018July Charter\u2019 Will Guarantee Religious Rights for Every Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ali Riaz, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser, said the proposed <strong>July Charter<\/strong> will enshrine every citizen\u2019s religious rights and establish a society grounded in equality, human dignity and social justice, where the state does not differentiate between individuals on the basis of faith. \u201cThis charter guarantees equal rights for all as citizens,\u201d he told a community outreach meeting on Tuesday at the National Museum auditorium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing members of the Sanatan (Hindu) community as part of a referendum campaign and voter-mobilization effort, Riaz said Bangladesh has traversed a \u201cblood-stained path\u201d in pursuit of a democratic and humane homeland and \u201cmust not squander the golden opportunity\u201d now before it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arguing that \u201ca state crushed by fascist repression\u201d requires systemic change, he urged voters to <strong>say \u2018Yes\u2019 in the upcoming referendum<\/strong> to launch broad reforms envisioned under the July Charter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting was chaired by <strong>Tapon Chandra Majumdar<\/strong>, chairman of the Hindu Religious Welfare Trust. <strong>Md. Kamal Uddin<\/strong>, secretary of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, and <strong>Debendra Oraon<\/strong>, secretary of the Trust, also addressed the gathering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Riaz, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser, said the proposed July Charter will enshrine every citizen\u2019s religious rights and establish a society grounded in equality, human dignity and social justice, where the state does not differentiate between individuals on the basis of faith. \u201cThis charter guarantees equal rights for all as citizens,\u201d he told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7149,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions\/7149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}