GM Quader 'self-declared chairman' of Jatiya Party: Bidisha Ershad

Bidisha Ershad, former wife of Jatiya Party's founding chairman and former president Hussain Muhammad Ershad, has said, "Jatiya Party has gone into life support. This party now faces great danger of extinction. The Jatiya Party you see now is not Ershad's Jatiya Party."

She was talking to journalists after placing wreath and offering fateha at Hussain Muhammad Ershad's grave at Palli Nibash on Darshana crossing in Rangpur city early Friday afternoon on the occasion of the 36th founding anniversary of the party.

Bidisha Ershad said: "Jatiya Party has gone into life support. In order to bring Jatiya Party back to its original form, I will take Eric Ershad from Teknaf to Tentulia and from Rupsha to Paturia."

"We will go door-to-door along with contacting with Jatiya Party's former and present leaders across the country to re-organize the party. We will strengthen the party."

Expressing regrets, Bidisha said, "In observance of any political party's founding anniversary, the leaders and workers led by the senior party leaders usually visit the grave of the founder of the party. I don't know what others do here. In order to fulfil Eric's wishes, we have come here in Rangpur and offered fateha at the grave of former JP chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad."

Terming GM Quader as the "self-declared chairman of Jatiya Party," she said, "I will do my best to bring youths and people at grassroots level to bring under the umbrella of the party. If it can be done, there will have no scope of declaring oneself as the chairman of the party. We will remain careful so that none can become self-declared chairman of the Jatiya Party in future."

Chairman of the Hussain Muhammad Ershad Trust, former presidium member of JaPa Kazi Mamunur Rashid, former presidium member Zafar Ahmed Siddiqui, director of Hussain Muhammad Ershad Trust Rubayet Hasan, Press Secretary ASM Sayem Saqlaim were present at the time.