BNP leader Nazrul Islam Khan stressed that restoring democracy is now a pressing need. “There are political and social forces that want to delay the democratic process for their own interests,” he said. He reiterated that BNP has no objections to holding local elections under a caretaker government but emphasized that such a government must also oversee the national elections first. “It's not technically feasible otherwise,” he said. He also called for justice against those who aided the authoritarian regime and demanded both reform and swift national elections.