CPD recommends dropping the idea of a bicameral parliament in Bangladesh

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has called for strengthening Bangladesh’s unicameral parliament, abandoning the idea of creating a bicameral legislature. At a dialogue on Thursday, the private think tank recommended legal, institutional, and structural reforms to improve the current system and advised dropping the bicameral proposal altogether. It called for strengthening the existing structure through legal, institutional, and structural reforms. After the student-public uprising, the interim government took the initiative to reform various sectors of the state. In continuation of this, the July Charter, also known as the National Charter, has been finalised by compiling 84 issues, including the formation of a bicameral legislature. The CPD recommendation came before political parties signed the Charter on Oct 15. A research...