Speaking at a street rally in Jamalpur on Monday, Dr. Tasnim Zara, a key leader of the National Citizens' Platform (NCP), declared that Bangladesh must decisively move away from the authoritarian state structure that allowed enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings by security forces in recent years. "We refuse to return to a system where absolute power is concentrated in the hands of one Prime Minister," said Dr. Zara. "The system that permitted citizens to be abducted and killed by state forces must be dismantled. We will not go back to that dark past." Earlier in the day, fellow NCP leader Nahid Islam visited families of local martyrs, toured the Harijan community, and engaged in discussions with students at a madrasa.