Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Tuesday underscored the need for ensuring the people’s political and economic empowerment along with exposing the fallen anti-people forces to justice for upholding the spirit and goals of the mass-upsurge.

‘Ensuring every citizen’s right to vote is the main tool of the people’s political empowerment,’ he said in a video message from London.

Tarique Rahman said that, with the fleeing by mass-killer Hasina, the path of eliminating fascist rule of 15 years has opened.

So it is the time to establish accountability-based democracy in the country, he said, adding that the oppressed, exploited and people having no rights are looking forward to a free, safe and dignified life.

He said that it was high time to build a safe and humane Bangladesh to meet people’s expectations.

Tarique Rahman said that, in the past 15 years, the democracy-loving people continued their movement and struggle for establishing democracy, human rights and voting rights in the country by ending the fascist regime.

Many people were forcefully disappeared, killed and kidnapped and many others became crippled forever, he said, adding that finally the mass-killer Hasina fled the country in the historic mass-upsurge of the student-people as part of continuation of the movement and struggle.

The BNP’s acting chairman said well-planned conspiracy is being hatched to foil the success and goals of the historic mass-upsurge.

As part of the conspiracy, evil efforts were carried out to create unrest in the country through making a design of planned attack on a religious community, he said.

But the deposed evil force failed to make the situation deteriorated because of timely steps of the ally force of the movement to oust Hasina and the interim government, he added.