Several leaders and activists of the Jatiya Party on Thursday organized a protest rally in front of the JP chairman's office in Banani in the capital on Wednesday expressing dissatisfaction with JP’s poor results in the 12th national parliamentary election.
They also demanded the immediate resignation of Chairman GM Quader and Secretary General Mujibul Haque Chunnu for the party's poor performance in the January 7 national polls.
A written statement was read out during the protest programme.
The leaders also threatened to force the two top JP leaders to resign within the next 48 hours.
JP Joint Secretary General Sahidur Rahman Tepa said in a written statement on behalf of the candidates who had been forced to withdraw from the election that the party suffered an extreme defeat in the election.
He further said, “GM Quader has led the JP to the brink of destruction in the last four years due to his organizational weakness and political short-sightedness. It was reflected in this election.”
More than 200 candidates of the party have boycotted the elections for gross betrayal,and cheating,he continued.
The government conceded 26 seats to JP. We hoped that the chairman and secretary general of the party would take responsibility for throwing the JP into such a mess and causing a bad defeat in the election and resign to save their honour. But they did not even do that. We know what the party’s leaders and activists at all levels want, the JP leader went on.
We want to see Chairman GM Quader and Secretary General Mujibul Haque Chunnu removed from their posts, he concluded.
Meanwhile, the police took position in front of the JP’s Banani office to deal with the situation.
Law enforcement was not allowing any activists to enter the office.
