Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has said the government will be responsible for the rise of any ‘undemocratic force or Jamaatees’ in the event of elections not being held.He said this while talking to reporters after a meeting with Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh at his residence in Dhaka’s Banani.
Ershad said the visiting Indian foreign secretary had told him that ‘undemocratic forces or the Jamaat-Shibir’ might gain gound if the elections were not held.
A day after deciding to boycott polls, the former military ruler said, “I have told her that I too do not want the rise of Jamaat-Shibir. But if that happens, then the government, and not I, will be responsible.”-bdnews24.com
