Rab enter Ershad’s house

Law enforcers have entered the house of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad in Baridhara in the capital hours after he directed his partymen to resign from their posts of ministers and adviser to the PM.

“We are here to arrest him (Ershad),” a member of the Rab-1 team that entered the former dictator’s house, told The Daily Star seeking anonymity.

The law enforcers swung into action shortly after visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh had a meeting with the JP chief at his ‘President Park’ house.

The developments followed a series of events centring the participation of the former constituent of the Awami League-led Grand Alliance in the next parliamentary election.

The law enforcers swung into action shortly after visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh had a meeting with the JP chief at his ‘President Park’ house.

Around half-an-hour earlier, the JP chief ordered his party men to resign from their posts of ministers and advisers to the prime minister

Earlier in the day, he also instructed JP candidates for the 10th parliamentary election to withdraw their nomination.

Ershad issued a press note in this regard, Sunil Shuvra Roy, press secretary to Ershad told The Daily Star today.

The JP chairman said visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh requested him to take part in the polls during a meeting earlier in the day.

“She (Sujata) requested me to join the polls, otherwise Jamaat will come in power, but I told her that this is not a matter to me who is voted to power.”