Students Against Discrimination has announced that it will hold a March for Unity programme at the Central Shaheed Minar today in support of the interim government's initiative to prepare a declaration of the July uprising based on national consensus.

As of 2:30am today, the student leaders had not made it clear whether they would formally proclaim the July uprising as they had announced on Sunday.

"Our heartfelt appeal to the people of Bangladesh, spontaneously participate in this programme," Arif Sohel, member secretary of the platform, told reporters after a near four-hour meeting at the office of Students Against Discrimination at the capital's Banglamotor.

Hours after the students made the announcement on Sunday, Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam told reporters that the government had no involvement in the student leaders' proclamation event.

However, the interim government last night said it took an initiative to prepare a declaration of the July uprising based on national consensus.

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After the government announcement, there was uncertainty about whether the students would hold their event. They then began the meeting.

After 1:30am, the chief organiser of the Jatiya Nagorik Committee, Sarjis Alam, said he welcomed the government's decision. "Because if the government does this based on the opinions of all quarters involved in the movement to overthrow the Awami League government, including political parties, it will be sustainable."

According to the Chief Adviser's Press Wing, the declaration will be adopted to consolidate the unity of people formed through the July mass uprising, the anti-fascist spirit, and the desire to reform the state, reports UNB.

The declaration will be prepared, taking the opinions of all political parties, Students Against Discrimination and other student bodies.

It will highlight the perspective of the July uprising, the basis of unity and the aspirations of people, says the press wing.

The government hopes that this declaration will be presented before the nation within a few days.

Earlier, the leaders of the Students Against Discrimination announced that they would hold an event, Proclamation of July Revolution, at the Central Shaheed Minar today.

The students and Jatiya Nagorik Committee said they requested supporters from districts and upazilas to attend the event.

They also invited the BNP, Jamaat, Gono Odhikar Porishad, left parties, and civil society members.

People who were injured in the uprising, family members of those martyred as well as doctors, teachers, labourers, and garment workers had been invited.

Students Against Discrimination, which spearheaded the mass uprising that ousted the Hasina-led government, is set to outline a framework of a society free of discrimination.

The declaration is supposed to present a vision to ensure equality, human dignity, and social justice, said the leaders, adding that they wanted to acknowledge people as sovereign entities.

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There will be a brief timeline of the series of incidents starting from the quota reform movement to eventually to the fall of the regime.

The Proclamation of Independence of the liberation war officially announced on April 17, 1971 had equality, human dignity and social justice as principles.

According to the leaders, they will narrate the significant events of history including 1947, 1971 and an evaluation of those events.

They will describe different historical events and explain why the aspirations of different movements failed.