Jatiya Party Secretary General Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu yesterday came up with a weird explanation as to why his party’s two key figures went to the prime minister to ask for her help to give a solution to the JaPa’s internal crisis.
“As Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is the leader of parliament she is also the leader of the opposition. She is actually an all-party leader and from that point of view she can be informed about the problem a party is facing,” Bablu said.
Bablu yesterday met the media at the party’s Banani office to clear the party’s position on the ongoing crisis over removals of two JaPa leaders from the party presidium, appointment of deputy leaders of the opposition and the PM’s role in solving the JaPa’s internal problem.
He said: “The top JaPa leaders met the prime minister on Wednesday in order to inform her about the present situation of the party.”
The same day JaPa Chairman HM Ershad relieved Moshiur Rahman Ranga and Tajul Islam from the presidium.
The reshuffle in the party ranks came as several other influential senior leaders reportedly continued to defy the decisions made by JaPa Chairman HM Ershad and Opposition Leader Raushan Ershad.
Party sources told the Dhaka Tribune that at a JaPa parliamentary party meeting on Tuesday Ranga and Tajul criticised Ershad and said they would not follow the party chief’s unilateral decision.
Ranga and Tajul made the remarks after Raushan asked the JaPa leaders, also cabinet members, to resign from the government, a decision that both Ershad and Raushan agreed on.
Later, the two leaders met the PM. Kazi Feroz Rashid and Ruhul Amin Howlader also joined them and talked to the prime minister, though briefly.
At the press briefing Bablu said he came to know that Tajul was a “war criminal” and he used to get involved in the politics of several other
parties including the BNP. “Party chairman [Ershad] will take action against him.”
