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Leadership crisis in JP

Fate of Ershad not decided yet

Staff Correspondent
With Chairman HM Ershad "confined" to the Combined Military
I lospital, the Jatiya Party leaders and activists are confused about who is actually in command of the party now.
There is no chain of command in the party, which could lead to splitting of the party into several factions, said JP sources.
"Who is actually running our party? Is it
Leadership crisis in JP
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Secretary General Ruhul Amin Hawlader or Raushan Ershad or GM Quader or Ziauddin Bablu? We don't know," a JP leader
toldThe Daily Star yesterday.
Another JP leader, whishing anonymity, said apparently the government was controlling the JP through an intelligence agency which had "picked up Ershad" from his Baridhara residence and took him to the CMH "for treatment" on December 12.
Two JP presidium members close to Ershad told The Daily Star that though the government earlier wanted to send the JP chief abroad, it now has backed out of the plan thinking that Ershad might make anti-government statements from abroad.
Besides, the move to send the former president abroad forcefully would tarnish the image of the government.
So the government will keep Ershad undersurveillanceatthe CMH, mentioned the JP leaders.
However, JP presidium member Kazi Firoz Rashid told newsmen that Ershad would not go abroad.
"The party chief will receive treatment at the CMH," he said after meeting Raushan Ershad at her Gulshan residence.
On December 13, Ershad, through his special adviser Bobby Hajjaj, told media that he was well and die government had confined him to the CMH for arrest as he did not agree to participate in the January 5 general election.
Bobby, who allegedly was forced to leave die country on Monday, also said Ershad nominated him as the party's spokesperson. Ruhul Amin Hawlader and GM Quader would give instructions to the party leaders and activists in absence of the J P chief, he added.
"But die reality is we go to Hawlader's residence in the morning and then to Raushan Ershad's in the afternoon as we believe she and Ziauddin Bablu are playing key roles behind the scene to maintain liaison with the government," a midlevel J P leader told this newspaper.
On November 18, Ershad announced to quit the ruling alliance, but joined the "polls-time government" the same day. He also declared that his party would contest the polls independently.
But in a dramatic move on December 3, the former military autocrat changed his mind and declared to boycott the election, saying that a proper atmosphere for the election was missing.
Despite the government's repeated efforts, the JP chairman did not change his decision.
Meanwhile, Ershad held a meeting with party Secretary General Ruhul Amin Hawlader at the CMH at Dhaka Cantonment yesterday evening, said JP sources.