Kazi Zafar wants Ershad to retire

Expelled Jatiya Party leader Kazi Zafar Ahmed has urged chairman HM Ershad, also Special Envoy of the Prime Minister, to retire from politics conceding his ‘failure’. “He is now near about 90. I would tell him ‘Mr Ershad, it’s enough. I’ve become free from you; now the nation wants to be freed from you. You should retire from politics by accepting your failure’,” Zafar said. The chairman of the newest breakaway faction of the party was speaking at a discussion at the National Press Club. He described Ershad as a villain who had perfected the art of political summersaults. Zafar, the former secretary general of the Jatiya Party, felt that politics would be transparent and vibrant if the former military ruler retired. “His objective is to gain advantage out of disturbances. After the parliamentary election, he has been talking irrelevantly to fish in muddy waters. “I would like to tell him, ‘That’s enough. It’s time you stepped down,” the former Prime Minister of Ershad’s cabinet said, according to a news agency.