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Jatiyo Party (JaPa) has relieved its co-chairman Kazi Firoz Rashid and presidium member Sunil Shuvo Roy of all party posts in a further continuation of its internal turmoil.
Party Chairman GM Quader took the decision by exercising the power bestowed upon him by the JaPa charter, according to a JaPa press release issued on Friday (12 January).
Mahmud Alam, joint office secretary of the party, told that they were expelled on charge of breaking the party discipline.
The party also issued a notification to its leaders and candidates in the national election, instructing them not to participate in any rally or political program in Dhaka other than those organized by party Chairman GM Quader and Secretary General Mujibul Huq Chunu.
Earlier on January 10, a group of JaPa officials and activists gathered at the party chairman's Banani office in Dhaka to stage a demonstration demanding the removal of GM Quader, Mujibul Haque Chunnu, and co-chairmen Anisul Islam Mahsud and Rezaul Islam Bhuiyan.
They blamed the party's severe defeat in the 12th national election on the arbitrary acts of its senior officials.
On January 10, the newly elected 11 JaPa candidates took their oath of office as members of parliament during a solemn ceremony in the Parliament Complex's Oath Room.
JaPa fielded candidates for 265 seats in the election and won only 11 despite a seat-sharing agreement with the Awami League for 26 seats.
The party had 22 seats in the 11th Parliament.
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