PDP joins Jatiya Jukta Front

New Age, Dhaka
Dec. 1, 2008

Staff Correspondent

The Progressive Democratic Party led by Ferdaus Ahmad Quarishi, on Sunday, joined the newly formed political alliance, Jatiya Jukta Front, aiming to bring qualitative changes in the politics of the country.
At a press briefing of the alliance partners at PDP’s Segun Bagicha office, the chairman of the party, Quarishi said that his party had joined the Jukta Front to bring qualitative changes in politics.
The alliance will be the third political front after the two big political alliances, one led by the Awami League and another by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Quarishi said.
Bikalpadhara Bangladesh president, AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury said, ‘We want to bring corruption-free politics in the country with the alliance by stopping the use of black money and muscle powers in politics.’
The alliance will take part in the forthcoming parliamentary elections forming an electoral alliance about seat sharing with the partners, the secretary general of the Bikalpadhara Bangladesh Abdul Mannan said at the briefing.
The Bangladesh Kalyan Party president, Syed Muhammad Ibrahim and Forward Party president, ABM Mostafa Amin also spoke at the briefing.
The Jukta Front was formed on November 18 with four political parties, Gana Forum, Bikapadhara Bangladesh, Bangladesh Kalyan Party and Forward Party.
No representative of the Gana Forum was present at the briefing.
A presidium member of Gana Forum, Pankaj Bhattachrya told New Age Sunday evening they were not interested in taking the PDP in the Jukta Front.