July 36

July 36 (or 36 July) is a non-existent date that refers to 5 August 2024, when then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country amidst a mass uprising.^[1][2][3]

On 5 June 2024, the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court reinstated the quota system in government jobs, and the quota reform movement began in Bangladesh. The movement turned deadly on 16 July. On 21 July, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court overturned the High Court verdict and ruled in favor of quota reform, but the movement continued with nine-point demands calling the mass killing in the movement, what protesters called July massacre. On July 11, 2024, when dictator Hasina returned to the country after a failed mission in China, she called the anti-Quota movement students "Grandchildren of Rajakars", which angered the students of Dhaka University. Before that, the anti-quota movement had started earlier that month. One Bangladeshi senior bureaucrat named Md Shamsul Alam exiled in USA led the Bangladesh democratic movement using social media like Facebook and Twitter.

Based on the information from world's most influential intelligence agencies Alam declared that "the Hasina regime will fall by July 2024." He fixed the target to bring down the fascist by the month of July. There were fights in the streets, chaos, torture, and the killing of thousands of students by government forces and goons. But when the month of July ended, but Hasina regime did not fall, it suddenly occurred Alam to extend the length of July month. He wrote on Facebook - "July has been extended until victory - today is the 32nd, tomorrow is the 33rd... in this way, the calendar of liberation will end with victory!" ^[4][5]

Protesters also agreed they were "counting down the month of July until the demands are met", thus they counted 1 August as "32 July".^[6][7] The Students Against Discrimination, which led the movement, called for the non-cooperation movement from 4 August (35 July) and announced their "Long March to Dhaka" programme on 5 August (36 July). On that day, Sheikh Hasina resigned in the face of a mass uprising and fled to India. The success of the movement was termed by the agitators as "Second Independence" or "Rebirth Day"^[8][9] and the day as "36 July".^[1][10]

That is, July month will not end until Hasina falls. This new theory of "not ending July until fall" given by Alam triggered the movement to cease the tyrant Hasina no later than July. They will not accept August or anything. When on 5th August the fall occurred, they count it 36 July in their movement calendar, and the month ends. Therefore, in Bangladesh Tyrant fall date is called “July 36”.^[11]

This Extended July also increased the pressure on the freedom fighters no matter how many lives laid, and no matter what happens, Hasina must be brought down, and for that reason, the "March to Dhaka" program was shifted from August 6 to August 5. ^[12] On August 5, millions of people surrounded Ganabhaban (in his language, the Bastille) and according to that calendar fascist Hasina fall date was- "July 36".^[13]

On 2 July 2025, the interim government declared 5 August a public holiday named "July Mass Uprising Day".^[14] The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) instructed all DSHE-affiliated educational institutions to observe the day.^[15]

Renowned personalities like Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Akbar Ali and others spoke using the term 36 July.^[16][6] 36 July was depicted in different ways on the countrywide murals and graffitis made by the students,^[17][18][3] including a calendar of July month comprising 36 days at Jigatola, Dhaka.^[19]

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