<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Jatiya Party Chief Patron Raushan Ershad on Tuesday declared herself the chairman of the party by relieving its current chairman GM Quader, now staying in India, from the post.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The announcement was given through a press release signed by Raushan, also the Opposition leader in parliament.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“I Begum Raushan Ershad, MP, the founding co-chairman of Jatiya Party, hereby declare that I have taken charge of the party chairman on the advice and decision of the senior leaders of the party in the interest of maintaining its dynamism,” the press release reads.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Sunday last, GM Quader went to&nbsp; New Delhi, India on a three-day visit to hold meetings with the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and he is scheduled to return home today (Tuesday).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Amid the party’s ambiguous position on joining the next polls under the current government, Raushan met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganabhaban residence on Saturday night.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Party insiders said Jatiya Party's four co-chairmen-- Ruhul Amin Hawlader, Kazi Firoz Rashid, Salma Islam, and Abu Hossain Babla--in a letter to Raushan in December last requested to take charge of the party chairperson expressing their lack of confidence in GM Quader.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They said Raushan decided to remove GM Quader from the post of party chairman due to his incompetence to run the party and his unconstitutional attitude.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, Jatiya Party Secretary General Mujibul Haque Chunnu in a video message claimed that relieving GM Quader from his post is fake news.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said he talked to the co-chairmen whose names were used and they assured him that they did not take any such decision and they did not sign any such letter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As per the party charter, Chunnu said no one can become its chairman and remove anyone as per his/her wish. “It has to be done as per the rules.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He claimed that Jatiya Party remains united under the leadership of GM Quader.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Chunnu thinks some people who were expelled from the party earlier spread the fake news using the name of Raushon. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>