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DHAKA, July 16, 2025 (BSS) - Supradip Chakma, adviser to the Ministry on Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs, today said that the July Revolution has established equity, friendship and human rights for the people of Bangladesh. 

"We all must move forward by upholding the spirit of July. The transformation brought through the sacrifices of the July martyrs continues to inspire us to move afresh today," he said.

Supradip made these remarks while speaking as the chief guest at a doa mahfil held at the Chittagong Hill Tracts Complex Auditorium in the capital organised under the supervision of the Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs.
 
Officials of the ministry and its affiliated bodies attended the programme to commemorate the July Martyrs Day, said a Ministry press release.

The adviser said that the dream of the July martyrs was to build a just, discrimination-free, corruption-free, and authoritarianism-free Bangladesh.
 
"The July Revolution of 2024 changed the course of the country's destiny. We pray for the eternal peace of the souls of those who sacrificed their lives in the advancement of the revolution. On behalf of the government, we have arranged this doa mahfil and I call upon all to work unitedly," he said.

Paying rich tributes to the July martyrs, the CHT affairs adviser solemnly remembered all those who laid down their lives and who became permanently disabled in the struggle to overthrow the tyrannical previous AL government during the mass uprising of July 2024.
 
"The nation will always honor their sacrifices. The July Revolution not only ended the autocratic rule but also gifted us a more discrimination-free and corruption-free state system. This revolution has changed the fate of the Bangladeshi people," he said.

To honor the martyrs, Supradip also announced a set of programs, including planting of some 15,000 saplings in the three hill districts on July 27 and organising football, cricket, and hockey tournaments to keep the youths away from drugs.

The event was chaired by the Secretary of the Ministry Md Abdul Khaleque.
He said from the very beginning of the July Revolution, a commitment to establish merit, honesty, and transparency in the society was born. "The foundation of the mass uprising was laid with the martyrdom of Abu Sayed in Rangpur on July 16, 2024."

At the end of the event, a doa mahfil was held while prayers were offered seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of the martyrs.

Officials of the ministry and its affiliated organisations participated in the event.

Major General (Retd.) Anup Kumar Chakma, chairman of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board, Kajol Talukder, chairman of Rangamati Zila Parishad, Thanjama Lusai, chairman of Bandarban Zila Parishad, Shefalika Tripura, acting chairman of Khagrachari Zila Parishad, were present, among others, on the occasion.