Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad on Sunday said they will take part in
the election forming a new alliance, and said his party will sever its
ties with the ruling alliance.
The JP chief said this while talking to reporters after a meeting with
Hefajat-e-Islam ameer Shah Ahmed Shafi at Al-Jamiatul Alia Darul Ulum
Moinul Islam Madrasah at Hathazari in Chittagong at noon. Asked
about the meeting, Ershad said, “I came here (Hathazari) to seek
Hujur’s (Shafi’s) blessings, and he blessed me so that I could be
successful in the future.” Later, Hefajat secretary general Junaid
Babunagari told the journalists that Ershad assured them of meeting
their 13-point demand if JP is voted to power. Terming Hefajat as
non-political organisation, Babunagari, the second-in-command of
Hefajat, said the Islamist group will neither form any alliance nor
contest the election. However, he said, they will back the party and
alliance that will implement their 13-point demand. JP central
leaders Anisul Islam Mahmud, MP, Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu and Solaiman
Alam Sheth were also present. Hefajat’s demands include restoration of
the phrase ‘Complete faith and trust in the Almighty Allah’ in the
constitution and repealing all the laws contrary to the holy Quran and
Sunnah and passage of a law keeping a provision of the maximum
punishment of death sentence to stop defaming Allah, Prophet Mohammad
(pbuh) and Islam, putting an end to free-mixing of men and women and
declaring Qadianis (Ahmadiyyas) as non-Muslim officially. – UNB
