BNP leader Aminul Haque claimed that the party has been fighting for public rights for the past 17 years, emphasizing that citizens have been denied voting rights for 15 years. “The people of Bangladesh now want to vote,” he said. Haque demanded elections and urged the government to stop politicizing state institutions. He also alleged that during the current regime, job applicants—both public and private—faced discrimination based on their political affiliations, with families being subject to unofficial "DNA tests" to check for BNP ties.