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| Bangladesh |
| Ershad picked up |
| 2013-12-13 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Members of an intelligence agency picked up Jatiya Party ...aka Jatiya Front; a political party established by Bangladictator Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1986 to lend a veneer of respectability to his rule. Since nobody was amused he was forced to resign by popular demand in 1990. The party remains in existence with about a dozen seats in Bangla's parliament... Chairman HM Ershad from his Baridhara residence and took him to the Combined Military Hospital last night. JP sources said Ershad was picked up as part of the government move to force him to participate in the election. But Rab-1 Commander Kismat Hayat said the JP chief was feeling sick and they just provided him security on his way to the CMH. A four-member team of the intelligence agency entered his President Park residence at 11:15pm and came out with him after 15 minutes. The development came just hours after a meeting between the ruling Awami League high-ups and three JP leaders -- Raushan Ershad, Anisul Islam Mahmud and Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu -- at the Gono Bhaban. JP workers present in front of Ershad's house tried to stop the vehicle carrying Ershad and rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud in his support, said Faisal Didar Dipu, convener of Dhaka University unit of Jatiya Chhatra Samaj, a pro-JP student wing. Intelligence officials called police and Rab to clear the way. At one stage, the law enforcers charged batons to disperse the JP men, he alleged. According to Dipu, a top intelligence official told the JP workers, "We are taking your sir for treatment." |
| Posted by:Fred |