Jatiya Party (JP) will divide the country into eight provinces and reintroduce upazila court system with full-fledged upazila system to bring administration to the doorstep of the rural people if they are voted to power, said former president and JP Chairman Hussain Mohammad Ershad yesterday.
Demanding upazila election before the national polls, he said free, fair and credible elections are very much possible under the emergency as August 4 city corporations and municipal elections are good examples that emergency allowing election campaign is not a barrier to hold elections.
Ershad was speaking at JP's central extended meeting at the auditorium of Diploma Engineers' Institute in the city.
“Decentralisation of state power and administration is the precondition of developing villages in Bangladesh,” he said, adding that, “Our economy is mostly agro-based as over 80 percent of total population live in villages.”
He urged the presidents, secretaries and conveners of district and upazila JP committees present in the meeting to work together to put JP in power saying that earlier Awami League (AL) and BNP snatched their victories by hatching conspiracy, but in this changed situation there is hope for JP.
Full-fledged upazila system can help the nation achieve food autarky as the upazila authorities can closely monitor the employees engaged to assist the farmers to bring croplands under cultivation of multi crops, he added.