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Ershad 'confined' yet campaign on

Mehedy Hasan, Rangpur
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad is not "contesting" Sunday's polls, but posters seeking votes for him appear on the walls of his hometown Rangpur.
A local JP faction is campaigning for the party chief, canvassing for votes over loudspeakers and putting up posters across the city, leaving voters utterly confused.
With Ershad confined to a hospital in the capital, other central leaders of his party remain divided over participating in the election. Some under the leadership of his wife Raushan Ershad have been speaking in favour of joining the electoral race.
At a press conference on December 28, Moshiur Rahman Ranga, president of both Rangpur district and city units of JP, said he was starting electioneering, though the party chairman had not given him permission to do so. Last night, he told The Daily Star, "I have been campaigning for Ershad."
Also a JP presidium member, Ranga added, "As his | Ershad] candidature couldn't be withdrawn and there will be the party's electoral symbol 'plough' on the ballots, it's our moral obligation to work for his victory."
Sabbir Ahmed of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal is Ershad's lone competitor in Rangpur-3 constituency (Rangpur sadar and part of Gangachara upazila).
On December 3, the former dictator announced that the JP would not take part in the election and asked the party’s candidates to withdraw theircandidature.
But when he applied for withdrawal of his candidature, the election office didn't accept it, saying it had not been filed as per law.
On December 12 night, law enforcers
picked him up from his Baridhara residence and took him to the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka. Since then, he has reportedly been confined there.
Seeking anonymity, a leader of the Rangpur district unit of the JP told The Daily Star that Ershad was an "unpredictable man."
"What he says in the morning, changes at night. It is not good for the party as well as for him," he added.
He said when Ershad announced the polls boycott, people along with party leaders and activists welcomed his decision. "But none can believe that he is not contesting the polls as his posters are seen across the city."
Sultana Parvin, a neighbour of Ershad's Senpara residence in the town, told The Daily Star that Ershad must clear his position before the people of Rangpur. "He said he was boycotting the polls. Yet the city is flooded with his posters."