Bidisha Siddique sued her ex-husband HM Ershad on Thursday for Tk 60 crore in damages alleging that she was tortures by him and suffered harm to her reputation through false cases filed by him for "harassment".
Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad has proposed a system of provincial government in Bangladesh, dividing the country into eight parts.
Jatiya Party chairman and former president HM Ershad claimed on Saturday that the country looked to him as the only acceptable national leader left in Bangladesh after the passing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman.
Former president and Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad yesterday expressed his deep concern over the recent incidents of violence on educational campuses and Chittagong Hill Tracts saying that continuation of such incidents would impede investment in the country.
Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad has said that the grand alliance will remain in power up to 2021 if all the allies stay together. The JP is a major ally of the Awami League-led coalition government.
Former President and Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad has said that though the main opposition is calling for forging national unity on crucial national issues, such a unity is almost impossible to achieve with the present leadership of the main opposition BNP.
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Wednesday called upon the leaders and activists of his party to strengthen their organisational capacity to contest the next parliament election independently.
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad on Sunday said his party's position in the Awami League-led grand alliance was weak, but he denied any misunderstanding among the allies.
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad is on a three-day visit to his ancestral home in the Indian state of West Bengal 'for one last time'. The former president, accompanied by his son Eric, was received by his relatives at Dinhata village in Cooch Behar district.
The Awami League-led government on Tuesday decided to recommend withdrawal of 297 more cases filed in the past with political motive, including one against Tarique Rahman, the eldest son of former prime minister Khaleda Zia. This is the second case against a leader of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party that has been recommended for withdrawal by the national review committee on withdrawal of politically-motivated cases after it decided to drop a liquor case against former law minister Moudud Ahmed on August 26.
