Quota system abolition not right decision, says Ershad

Jatiya Party chairman Hossain Mohammad Ershad on Friday said that it would not be right to fully abolish the quota system in government service.

‘Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has announced to abolish the quota system. However, it won’t be right to do so. There should be a quota reserved for freedom fighters,’ he said while addressing a worker rally of his party at Bangalipur in Saidpur of Nilphamari.

Ershad, however, termed the existing freedom fighter quota irrational. ‘The ratio should be adjusted,’ he said.

Mentioning that it was he who had introduced quotas for all while in power, he said, ‘But now the government has reformed the quota system for its own interest.’

The Jatiya Party chief also claimed that a job-seeker had to pay Tk 8 to 10 lakh now to get a job in police force. ‘Even then it’s not certain that you’ll get the job after paying so much money.’

He also took a swipe at the government for the skyrocketing prices of daily essentials, saying that the prices of every necessary good had gone out of the reach of common people.

Ershad said that his party would participate in the next general election on its own with JP candidates in all the 300 constituencies. ‘We aren’t in alliance anymore with others. Jatiya Party will take part in the general election alone,’

He claimed that the Awami League government had lost its popularity over different issues. ‘They’re in a fragile condition while the Bangladesh Nationalist Party has fallen apart. Their central leader is now in jail and the party has no leader right now.’

Opposition chief whip Md Sawkat Chowdhure, Saidpur upazila Jatya Party president Siddiqur Rahman also spoke on the occasion.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net