The ruling Awami League tries to break Jatiya Party (JaPa) whenever it wants to do politics for people, said the party chairman and leader of the opposition GM Quader on Saturday (February 24).

Addressing the ruling Awami League, he said: “Don’t try to spoil the politics in the country. Allow the parties to do politics. It can’t be accepted that you’ll do politics unilaterally.”

GM Quader made the remark at a function organised to wish him on his 76th birthday at the party’s Banani office in the capital on Saturday (February 24).

The JaPa chairman said: “Whenever we want to do politics freely, an attempt is made to make grouping inside our party. The government does this. We’ve seen during the 12th parliamentary polls that how much an election can become dirtier.”

He further said, “The JaPa still known as a domesticated opposition party. It’s a reality because the ruling party has penetrated various agents into our party. They do our party, but do the politics of the ruling party. In fact, they do our party remaining hidden among us, they avail various facilities, but work in favour of the government during bargaining. As a result, whenever we take any decision, they try to form another party breaking our party. And, the government has been doing this constantly so that we can’t exercise politics freely and remain as a domestic opposition.”

According to GM Quader, the parasitic Jatiya Party has the necessity, but not the domesticated one.

“We must have to come out from the stigma of domesticated opposition. There is no necessity of a domesticated party to the country and its people. With a view to weakening us, the government will always form an alliance behind us. Those who do the politics of Jatiya Party, they must have to do that if they intend to come out of the stigma of domestic opposition, and those who want to do any other party using the Jatiya Party platform, they will have to be ousted from the JaPa. If we can do this, the party will survive. Otherwise, the party will not survive.”

Mentioning that the JaPa has now remained ‘captive,’ GM Quader said, “We had a choice though we were parasite in the past. We have become captive now. We’ll not be able to go to any individual except one.”
The function was also addressed by JaPa presidium member Advocate Rezaul Islam Bhuiyan, presidium member Mir Abdus Sabur, Jatiya Party’s female MP Nazma Akter, Jamalpur District JaPa president and presidium member Mostofa Al Mahmud, JaPa Dhaka City North convener Taiyyebur Rahman, JaPa co-chairman Salma Islam and GM Quader’s wife Sherifa Quader, among others, were present.