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Try corrupt BNP men, Ershad urges PM
RANGPUR. Jan 17: Jatiya Party Chairman Hussain Mohammad Ershad today urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to hold the trial for corruption committed during the BNP regime, reports UNB.
"You (Hasina) will be identified as a promise-breaker if you don't hold the trial." he said addressing a huge public meeting at the local Zilla School ground.
Recalling the election pledge of the Prime Minister. Ershad said Hasina will be unable to continue her politics if she does not try the corrupt people of BNP.
"People of this area will not be with you (Hasina) and my people will not support you."' the JP chairman said amid thunderous applause by his supporters who chanted "Go ahead Ershad. we are with you."
The former General said Sheikh Hasina has nothing to be-ajc^ld of ,-BNB. "a finished chapter will never come back to' power."
Earlier. Ershad was greeted by the people of his home district as he reached the meeting venue after visiting a cluster village and an orphanage.
named after him. He also offered fateha at the grave of his parents and of saint Jainpuri.
Narrating the background of his support to Awami League. Ershad said the BNP which "tried to destroy me had sent a proposal to me in jail" at night.
"They offered me unconditional release and also to be the prime minister." he claimed. "But 1 refused, remembering the torture and repression they unleashed on me in jail and their step-motherly attitude towards me."
The JP chief said his party supported the Awami League to form government as it had emerged the largest party through the June 12 general election.
The JP chairman, who flew in here on Thursday on a three-day visit, told the meeting that he had resigned on December 6; 1990 only to avoid bloodshed.
"There was no movement in the. country in 1990 against me. It was centralised only.in-Jront of Press Club in Dhaka... blit T resigned so that nobody has to die." he said.
Ershad charged the then caretaker government of Sha-habuddin Ahmed with betray Ing him. saying that It was "committed to hold an impartial election, not to try me."
"But." he said, "they illegally arrested me. my wife and our son. Later, they brought false charges to destroy me."
Terming the five year rule of BNP as a story oi failure. Ershad said. They could not do one-inch progress, rather killed 144 people lo hold farcical February 15 polls; they killed 1 5 people who demanded fertiliser in fair prices."
"BNP also killed democracy." he added.
The JP Chairman urged that people to choose the right party in the next election for the development of the country.
The biggest rally in recent time here, was also addressed by JP leaders Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury. Kazi Zafar Ahmed. Shah Moazzem Hossain. Anwar Hossain Manju MP. Manirul Huq Chowdhury. Col (Retd) Abdul Malek. Sarder Amjad Hossain. Dr MA Matin. Tajul Islam Chowdhury and Begum Raw-shan Ershad MP.
On his arrival at the town, cheering people blasted crackers. sang songs, danced and embraced each other as they stopped his jeep in several places while Ershad addressed them.
Thousands of people at today's rally blasted BNP and chanted slogan against Khaleda Zia when Ershad was saying that he even was not given a sweetmeat in iftar during his imprisonment in last six years.
"During my jail-life. 1 was not allowed to have paper and pen to write. I was not given book to read but they should remember that a poet and his poems cannot be killed." said Ershad.
He told the meeting that people of Rangpur have given him a new life and he would sacrifice his life in serving Rangpur. "In-shallah. the demand of Rangpur division and turning Carmichael College into University will be realised."
Ershad is expected to return to Dhaka tomorrow after staying overnight at his paternal house Sky View at New Senpara