Ershad dreams of majority in next JS

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday asked his party activists to strengthen their activities so that it could win at least 151 seats in the next parliamentary elections to form the government.

"We hope to see JP in power again," he told a views exchange meeting in his Banani office, which was organised by party leaders of Gazipur's Kaliganj upazila.

"BNP chief Khaleda Zia has been facing trial. She will have to go to jail. At this moment her party has no organisational strength," he said. He vowed to hold party councils at the grassroots level within six months.

Over the country's law and order situation, the JP boss said none even children and women could not escape from harassment.

He claimed JP was the only alternative to saving the country from corruption, terrorism and misrule.

Ershad, also a special envoy to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said his party had had a lot of troubles and the party which was responsible for this was now facing the same consequences.

Echoing Ershad, JP Secretary General Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu said the country's people became fed up with the two major parties and they wanted to get rid of this situation immediately.