GM Quader: Interim Government Pushing Toward One-Sided Blueprint Elections

Staff Correspondent

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader has commented that Dr. Yunus’ interim government is leading the country towards a one-sided election with a fabricated blueprint.

GM Quader also accused the Jatiya Party of trying to force it into a swimming competition.

The Jatiya Party Chairman made these remarks in a press release today, Saturday, November 15th.

He said, “To increase the acceptability of the election at least a little, I don’t think it is appropriate to keep the Jatiya Party out of the election altogether. However, at the same time, the Jatiya Party is paying special attention to ensuring that the government party and the parties favored by the government do not create any risk to their victory. For that purpose, the Jatiya Party is careful to create various obstacles so that a normal environment is not created in the election.”

Yesterday, the party’s general secretary in Dinajpur district, Shamim Haider Patwari, went to Dinajpur to meet with local party leaders and activists as part of the election campaign. But the local administration, on the pretext of obstructing the leaders of the NCP and the People’s Rights Council, prevented the meeting from being held at a specific location without providing security with the help of the police.

In this context, GM Quader said, similarly, on Friday, November 7, a rally of Jatiya Party Dhaka district workers at a local community center in Keraniganj and on November 12, the Mymensingh divisional representative meeting was first obstructed by the NCP and the People’s Rights Council, and then the police, instead of ensuring security, stopped the rally.

Earlier, as part of the Jatiya Party’s election campaign, the police broke up a peaceful workers’ rally in front of the central office on October 11 without provocation.

GM Quader alleged that numerous false and fabricated cases are being filed against leaders and activists across the country with the help of the government to stall the activities of the Jatiya Party. Multiple false and fabricated cases have been filed against many leaders, including the Jatiya Party Chairman.

He said that despite not being convicted, former Jatiya Party MP Golam Kibria Tipu and Dhaka Metropolitan North leader ANM Selim are still serving more than a year in prison in false cases. Even though they were granted bail in one case, they are being given another case again or are being kept in prison by showing them as being arrested on the anonymous list in the case.

Strongly condemning these activities of the government, GM Quader said, “The Jatiya Party is an old party registered with the Election Commission. This party has organizations all over the country. This party has widespread public support. The Jatiya Party has a long experience of running the country. The countrymen still remember with gratitude many of the developmental and reform activities of the Jatiya Party for the welfare of the country and the nation.”

Commenting that the Jatiya Party has always been with the people and will continue to be so in the future, he said, “The results of suppressing the Jatiya Party by taking away people’s rights through undemocratic methods and not applying existing laws will not be good for the country and the nation.”

He called on the government to refrain from all such activities.