Bangladesh is observing 5 August 2026 as July Mass Uprising Day, the second anniversary of the 2024 student-public uprising that ended 16 years of Awami League government.
The uprising grew out of a quota-reform campaign called by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and turned into a mass movement after 36 days of protest.
On 5 August 2024, a 'Long March to Dhaka' drew students, parents, families of martyrs and ordinary citizens into the capital's streets, and the army chief later confirmed that then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina had left the country.
In 2025, the interim government declared 5 August a national day and a 'Class A' day.
For the anniversary, the government declared a public holiday and, under its announced programme, scheduled wreath-laying at July martyrs' memorials in all 64 districts, with roads and landmarks decorated with national flags, banners, festoons and coloured pennants.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is to inaugurate the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum in the morning and, later, attend a reception for martyrs' families and July fighters at the China-Bangladesh Friendship Conference Center, with acting president Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, Bir Bikram, as chief guest.
The acting president and the prime minister issued separate messages greeting fighters and citizens and paying tribute to those killed in the uprising.
The 2024 movement became known at home and abroad as the July Mass Uprising or July Revolution.