Rangpur Jatiya Party (JaPa) President and City Corporation Mayor Mostafizur Rahman Mostafa said Awami League would have to give up 100 seats, 10 minister posts, and 22 seats in Rangpur if it wants JaPa to take part in the 12th parliamentary elections.
Otherwise, the Rangpur unit Jatiya Party would boycott the election and fulfill its demands through agitation, he said at an emergency meeting on Saturday.
The meeting was attended by all the presidents and general secretaries of 33 wards of Rangpur city and all the upazila presidents and general secretaries of the district and metropolitan unit of JaPa.
In the four-hour meeting speakers made various allegations against the Awami League government and said the party came to power in 1996 with the support of the Jatiya Party, but never properly valued them.
They added that Awami League has also insulted JaPa’s founder, the late HM Ershad, from time to time.
They said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina did not visit Ershad for once while he was undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka.