Zafar's JP to join BNP-led alliance

Kazi Zafar-led Jatiya Party is going to formally join the BNP-led 18-Party alliance on Saturday evening.

“We will join them at 7:30pm. We have a programme with Begum Zia in. From today, the 18-Party will be a 19-Party alliance,” Kazi Zafar said at the beginning of a meeting of his party’s presidium members at his Gulshan house in the afternoon.

Zafar had broken away from Ershad’s Jatiya Party following differences with his former boss over participating in the 10th Parliamentary elections.

He then formed a new party with some former and current leaders of Ershad’s Jatiya Party. Zafar also named his party as Jatiya Party.