All Jatiya Party ministers and state ministers in the ‘all-party’ interim poll-time government have handed over their resignations to party chief HM Ershad.
The resignation letters will be sent to the Prime Minister’s office by mail since she could not give an appointment, said the party’s Secretary General ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader on Sunday.
Seven resignation letters have been submitted to the chairman, he told reporters at Ershad’s Baridhara residence.
The former dictator on Tuesday declared his party will stay away from the polls.
He made the startling revelation a day after candidates of his party filed nominations for most of the 300 parliamentary seats even after the BNP and its allies in the Opposition preferred to stay away.
Ershad on Wednesday directed the six Jatiya Party ministers in the interim Cabinet and an advisor to the Prime Minister to quit their posts.
Two Jatiya Party ministers – Raushan Ershad and ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader – and State Minister for Youth and Sports Mojibul Haque Chunnu met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday after Ershad’s call for resignation.
But they did not submit their resignation letters to Hasina.
The other ministers from the party are Commerce Minister Ghulam Muhammed Quader, Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Salma Islam and Prime Minister’s Advisor Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu.
Ershad had said on Saturday his party ministers would tender their resignations to the Prime Minister.
The ministers held two separate meetings at the residences of Raushan Ershad and Hawlader, after emerging from Ershad’s house.
Hawlader had told reporters on Saturday they would submit resignations on Sunday.
Source: bdnews24