Sirajganj, March 29 -- BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday alleged that the people of Bangladesh are being systematically denied their voting rights as happened during the dictatorship.

Speaking at an event in Belkuchi, Sirajganj, where BNP distributed Eid relief among the destitute, Rizvi said, "Just as under past autocratic regimes, people today are being kept away from voting."

He recalled Bangladesh's history of student-led movements for democracy, saying, "Student-people movements had overthrown dictators before through struggles to protect democracy."

Rizvi emphasised that political reforms should be a continuous process driven by an elected government in parliament.

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