Independent MP Ushatan says he didn’t join Awami League

Ushatan Talukder, who is representing Rangamati in parliament as an independent candidate, has refuted the Awami League’s claim that the Parbatya Chattagram Janasamhati Samiti leader has joined the ruling party.

PCJSS Vice-President Ushatan issued a rejoinder against Wednesday’s reports also carried by bdnews24.com that he joined the Awami League.

“This report is utterly false and based on a political plot,” he said in the rejoinder.

He also said the report was published without his comments in order to “mislead people about the PCJSS leadership”.

bdnews24.com, however, had called him on his phone number provided by the Parliament Secretariat before publishing the news, but his phone was found switched off.

On Wednesday, bdnews24.com ran the report of Ushatan and 13 other independent MPs joining the Awami League after the ruling party's Organising Secretary Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury confirmed that the MPs agreed on the issue in a meeting.

Later in the night, Ushatan's aide MR Hossain Zahir told bdnews24.com that the PCJSS leader was not in the meeting.

Of the 16 independent MPs of the 10th parliament, most are Awami League leaders.