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Positive on Polls

Some JP men to defy Ershad

Kazi Zafar's spl council today

Prabir Barua Chowdhury
The election game has not yet been over for Jatiya Party as a section of its top leaders have planned to contest the January 5 election defying the party chiefs decision to boycott it.
Insiders say Raushan Ershad, a senior presidium member and wife of JP chief HM Ershad, is giving the lead in support of party colleagues Anisul Islam Mahmud and Ziauddin Bablu, among others.
A number of JP leaders however told The Daily Star that Ershad had indirect support behind Raushan's move.
"The fact is Ershad wants to remain on both boats -Awami League and BNP. He is opposing the January 5 election to please BNP and allowing his wife to take part in the election to please the ruling party," said a JP presidium member asking not to be identified.
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Though the party has yet to make a formal announcement, two leaders - Liakat Hossain Khoka and Selim Uddin who are set to be elected uncontested in the Januaty 5 polls -told reporters yesterday that JP was back to the polls.
“With the permission of our father [Ershad] and upon order from our mother [Raushan|, we are going to contest in the polls," Khoka said after coming out of Raushan's Gulshan residence.
"The party's chairman is sick. So, we are going to the polls upon order from Raushan. We believe that Ershad is our father and Raushan is our mother. For that reason we are going to contest the election upon our mother's order," Khoka said.
An intelligence agency picked up Ershad from his Baridhara residence in the capital on December 12, just a few hours after he had sent a letter to the Election Commission requesting it not to allocate his party's electoral symbol, plough, to anyone since his party had decided to boycott the polls.
The Daily Star yesterday obtained a letter in the party's pad signed by Ershad without any date. The letter said as Ershad was "confined" in CMH and the government might force him to go abroad, he handed over his authority to Secretary General Ruhul Amin Hawlader and presidium member GM Quader.
Asked, presidium member Kazi Firoz Rashid told The Daily Star he heard that Ershad had handed over his power to Hawlader and Quader.
KAZI ZAFAR'S SPECIAL COUNCIL
Kazi Zafar, who is heading a new committee of Jatiya Party after being expelled by Ershad, said his committee would decide on the expulsion of Ershad in its "special council conference" to be held at Jatiya Press Club today.
The council would take a decision about joining the BNP-led 18-party alliance in its anti-government movement.
Zafar said this while addressing a briefing at a Gulshan restaurant in the capital yesterday.
The expelled leader of JP announced a new interim committee declaring himself as its chairman on November 29, a day after Ershad expelled him on the grounds that the former had spoken against him.