Jatiya Party said on Saturday that it wanted next general elections under a caretaker government.
Party chairman Ghulam Muhammad Quader on Saturday made the statement while speaking at an exchange-of-views meeting at Dhaka Reporters鈥� Unity.
GM Quader said that the interim government led by Professor Muhammad Yunus that was formed after the victory of students and people against the fascist Awami League regime lost its neutrality.
The interim government had failed to control law and order, failed to implement the spirit of the uprising and lost its neutrality and credibility as baseless cases were filed, he said.聽
鈥楴ow the interim government is trying to hold a one-sided general election in coming February excluding Awami League and some other political parties, which would not be acceptable both at home and abroad鈥� the JP chairman said.
鈥業f such one-sided election is held half of the voters of the county would remain out of the election,鈥� he added.
JP organised the exchange-of-view meeting with its women front Jatiya Mahila Party leader Hera Khan Panni in chair.
GM Quder further alleged that the interim government was trying to bring radical changes in the 1972 constitution for which they did not have the right without people鈥檚 mandate.
鈥榃e want an inclusive general election under the 1972 constitution and the next elected government will bring changes in the constitution in the parliament,鈥� GM Quader said.
Party secretary general Shamim Haider Patwary, presidium members Sherifa Quader and Rezaul Islam Bhuiyan, among others, spoke at the programme.
JP earlier joined all national polls in 2014, 2018 and 2024 under the Awami League regimes that scrapped the caretaker government system in 2011 following a Supreme Court verdict abolishing the constitutional provision introduced in 1996.
In May 2009, Jatiya Party founder and military dictator HM Ershad at a discussion in Dhaka urged the government to promulgate a law to abolish the constitutional provision of caretaker government.
