On the face of growing tension centring on a conference between two factions, Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad yesterday left the city without announcing a new committee as per the party rules.
Ershad attended the biennial conference of the city unit JP in Ashwini Kumar Hall in the city as the chief guest, where he was supposed to make the declaration as usual for the unit.
The JP chairman said he would announce the committee from Dhaka after getting the whole list.
The political scenario of the city turned volatile as two JP factions announced programmes at the hall at the same time. Consequently, local enforcement agencies also adopted additional measures to check for any possible untoward incidents.
However, JP district unit President Prof Mohsin Ul Islam Habul, who leads a faction, at last postponed his programme of “grassroots workers conference” on the request of Ershad.
Murtaza Abedin, convener of the conference preparatory committee and councillor of Barisal City Corporation, leads another faction.
In the event, Ershad opined the people have had a tough time under the Awami League-led government, and that was why they want relief from the suffocating situation.
Of them, women are most unsecure and the disgusting state was not available during the JP rule, Ershad continued.
Later, the JP chairman assured of ensuring good governance for the countrymen if he is voted to power.
He called upon his activists to work all together, shunning all factional disputes to make the party strong and dynamic to gain state power by winning in the next general election.
JP Presidium Member and also Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud, LGRD State Minister Moshiur Rahman Ranga, and MP and Secretary General Ziauddin Bablu addressed the event among others.
