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Published : 09 Aug 2025, 12:25 PM
The leadership of the Jatiya Party has convened a national council in Dhaka without Chairman GM Quader, the brother of the party’s founder GM Ershad, amid a bitter internal rift.
On Saturday, the “unity conference” began at 11:30am with Quran recitation at the Emmanuel Convention Centre in Dhaka’s Gulshan, chaired by senior leader Anisul Islam Mahmud.
A day earlier, Anisul said there was “no question of division” and stressed that the event belonged to the party founded by the late Ershad, registered under the plough symbol.
On Jul 7, Quader removed Anisul, Co-Chairman ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader, Secretary General Mujibul Haque Chunnu and seven others from party posts.
The outcasts challenged the decision in court, which on Jul 31 temporarily barred Quader and Joint Office Secretary Mahmud Alam from exercising organisational powers.
On Tuesday, a notice signed by the removed office secretary MA Razzak Khan announced Anisul as acting chairman.
Within three days, Anisul, Howlader and Chunnu jointly declared the national council at a press briefing in Gulshan, saying they had been reinstated by court order and that Quader was barred from party activities.
Chunnu said the presidium decided to hold the council “urgently” to free the party from organisational paralysis and to present it anew with “responsibility, discipline and unity” after recent “confusion” over its leadership. He called it a conference of “self-purification and rebuilding democratic leadership.”
Anisul said he had contacted Raushon Ershad and Anwar Hossain Monju, expecting both to attend.
“After the council, we will unite. We are resolving the few small divisions left and want a united Jatiya Party,” he said.
The party last held a national council on Dec 28, 2019.
