JP MPs start boycotting Ershad's meetings
Jatiya Party's (JP) Parliamentary Party yesterday decided to refrain from attending any meeting called by its Chairman HM Ershad, including today's views-exchange meeting, until JP Presidium Member Raushan Ershad was appointed “co-chairman 1”.
The decision was taken at a meeting in Opposition Leader in Parliament Raushan's parliamentary office with her in the chair and 27 MPs in attendance, says a press release, adding that the parliamentary party would protect JP's unity at any cost.
A meeting of the parliamentary party on January 19, in Ershad's presence, had taken three decisions, none of which had been implemented till date, it added.
The first was on cancelling the “unilateral and undemocratic” appointment of GM Quader as co-chairman and Ruhul Amin Hawladar as secretary general by Ershad and the second on Raushan's appointment. The third decision stipulated that the JP chairman would not take any decision without discussions with the JP presidium and parliamentary body, it said. Today's views-exchange meeting is scheduled to be held with JP chiefs of district, metropolitan, upazila and municipality units over the debates centring the appointments.
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