Khulna: Jatiya Party (JP) chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad on Monday said he is eagerly waiting to see when BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will land in jail.

Criticizing Khaleda Zia, he said Khaleda at a meeting in Mymensingh several years ago had said 'Ershad will go to jail and remain there till his death'.

‘Now I am alive and waiting to see who returns from jail after death,’ he said.

‘She has seen her younger son's body, her elder son is staying abroad and most of her party leaders are in jail, and her party now is in coffin and the last nail would be driven into the coffin after she is jailed,’ he said.

He was addressing the biennial conference of Khulna District Unit Jatiya Party at Shaheed Hadis Park in Khulna.

Accusing that BNP patronized terrorists and militants while in power, He posed question ‘What would happen if BNP comes to power again? Terrorism, bombing will reappear and they would kill farmers, villagers demanding fertilizers and electricity, as happened at B'Baria and Kansat during their tenure,’ he said.

Ershad, also a special envoy of Prime Minister, said ‘Where is Khaleda Zia? Why she does not come out to the street like me. Where are her party's stalwarts and activists, they are now in holes, he said.

He said, Khaleda called upon the countrymen to come to the street and join the so-called movement against the government but the countrymen rejected her call.

Presided over by JP presidium member and convener of the conference committee of Khulna JP Sunil Shubha Roy, the conference was also addressed, among others, by Water Resources Minister Barrister Anisul Islam Mahmud, Secretary General of JP Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu, Khulna city Unit JP president Sheikh Abul Hossain and member secretary of the conference committee Shafiqul Islam Modhu.

A total of 544 councilors and thousands of delegates attended the conference.