Staff Correspondent: Jatiya Party (JaPa) chairman and deputy leader of Opposition in the Jatiya Sangsad (national parliament) GM Quader has been facing various risks since his firm anti-government stand came out in the open. The decision to make him leader of the opposition in parliament has remained pending though the MPs sent the letter to the speaker last week. Amid this, a new rumour has spread that Raushan Ershad, the party chairman, has been planning to replace GM Quader as the deputy leader in parliament with the party’s co-chairman Kazi Firoz Rashid.

Raushan Ershad is the widow of the party’s founding chairman HM Ershad while GM Quader is his younger brother.

The 79-year-old JaPa chairman, Raushan Ershad, is in Bangkok for the last 10 months for medical treatment and is likely to return in October, said party sources. Party’s leaders and activists have been trying to analyse and understand the course of politics in the coming days, especially before the next (12th) general elections.