JP ministers to quit cabinet soon: Raushon

Opposition leader Raushon Ershad said on Monday Jatiya Party ministers will quit the cabinet soon so that the party can play an effective role as the opposition, reports UNB.

"We've had discussions at the party forum that we'll play an effective role as the opposition…we've decided to come out from the cabinet soon," she said replying to a question at a press conference at the Parliament Media Centre.

Asked whether Jatiya Party supports police siege to the BNP chairperson's Gulshan political office, Raushon said Khaleda Zia has not been confined. "We think it has been done for the sake of Khaleda Zia's security."

Ruling out the possibility of any snap election right now, Raushon Ershad said a democratic environment now prevails in the country and there is no need for any election.

Opposition chief Whip Tajul Islam Choudhury, Jaitya Party leaders Kazi Firoz Rashid, MP, ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader, MP, Fakhrul Imam, MP, and Rowshon Ara Mannan, MP, were among others, present at the press conference, arranged on the occasion of the first anniversary of the

January-5 national election that largely went uncontested.