Kazi Zafar Ahmed, the recently expelled Jatiya Party leader, has made a sudden visit to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan residence on Friday evening.
Party insiders confirmed the matter to the Dhaka Tribune.
The agenda of the sudden meeting could not be known immediately. However, sources close to Kazi Zafar said the meeting would discuss the current political situation of the country.
Earlier on Thursday, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad and Kazi Zafar expelled each other from the party.
Ershad expelled Kazi Zafar for making frequent statements against him “violating the party charter.”
At 2pm, only an hour after Ershad had expelled him, Kazi Zafar sent him a suspension letter claiming that he was the “all-in-all” of the Jatiya Party, not Ershad. He also claimed that a majority of the presidium members were with him and they would expel Ershad through the special council within a day or two.
On Saturday, Zafar stated that his leader Ershad had betrayed the nation by joining the polls-time government.
Kazi Zafar’s United Peoples’ Party (UPP) was a part of the BNP-led seven-party alliance when protests had been mounted against Ershad in the early 1980s.
But he later left the alliance and joined Ershad’s cabinet under martial law regime. He served as commerce minister, deputy prime minister and finally as the prime minister under Ershad.
Recently, BNP acting secretary general Miza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir visited Zafar at a city hospital and stayed there for about an hour. Zafar was undergoing treatment at the hospital.
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