Ershad optimistic about return to power
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday called on the people to keep faith in him and said his party would go to power at the next parliamentary polls.
He said this at a rally in the city marking the party's 26th founding anniversary.
“Our aim is to go to power through the next parliamentary polls. And to achieve this we will contest in 300 seats,” declared Ershad, a key leader of the ruling Awami League-led grand alliance.
Pointing to several cases filed against him, for which he had to serve time in jail, the former president said, “Our hands were tied and legs were chained and that's why we couldn't come close to the people. But those days are over. Time has come to go forward, taking the people with us.”
Meanwhile, the Jatiya Party (Manju) yesterday also observed its 26th founding anniversary.
The party's Chairman, Anwar Hossain Manju, at a meeting at the Jatiya Press Club in the city said his party would always support a constitutional and democratic path.
Criticising Ershad, he posed the question of which side he [Ershad] and his party belong to. “Do they belong to the government or are they in the opposition?” he asked.
Manju further said that Ershad was playing double standard politics. "Sometimes he says he will never belong to the Awami League-led grand alliance. But after a few days, he again says the grand alliance should strengthen its unity."
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