Senior BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed has raised concerns over the final draft of the July National Charter 2025, warning that it contains inconsistencies and fails to accurately reflect all points discussed during negotiations.

In an interview with a national television channel on Sunday, Salahuddin said BNP is carefully reviewing the document and will submit its formal feedback by August 20.

The National Consensus Commission recently distributed the completed draft to political parties, outlining proposed reforms to the Constitution, electoral process, judiciary, public service, police, and anti-corruption framework.

According to the Commission, consensus was achieved on several reforms, although it admitted that not all proposals received full agreement.

Syed Ehsanul Huda, BNP chairman and coordinator of the 12-party alliance, also criticized the latest version, describing it as contradictory to earlier drafts shared with the alliance.

He stated that the agreed plan was that reforms supported by consensus, including those implementable through ordinances, would be incorporated into the Constitution over a two-year period, after which an elected parliament would finalize the changes.

“But the version we received yesterday makes no mention of this timeline,” Huda noted. He added that the Commission should have included only the issues on which agreement was reached. “Instead, we see that topics lacking consensus have been excluded altogether,” he said.