The Jatiya Party faction led by HM Ershad on Sunday said that the
resignations of all its six ministers and an adviser to the prime
minister would be posted to the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.
‘We decided to sent the resignations to the prime minister by post for
submission to the president as we had sought appointment with her, but
got no response since Saturday,’ party secretary general Ruhul Amin
Hawlader told reporters at party chairman Ershad’s Baridhara house.
Ruhul later at night met the president Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban.
Coming out from Bangabhaban, he told reporters that the ministers
belonging to his party would not attend the regular cabinet meeting
today.
He, however, declined to disclose anything discussed with president.
According to Article 58(1) of the constitution, the office of a minister
falls vacant if he resigns from office by placing his resignation in
the hands of the prime minister for submission to the president.
Civil aviation and tourism minister Ruhul Amin Hawlader, health minister
Rawshan Ershad, water resources minister Anisul Islam Mahmud, commerce
minister GM Quader, youth and sports minister Mujibul Hoque Chunnu,
state minister for women and children affairs, Salma Islam and prime
minister’s adviser Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu already submitted their
resignations to Ershad, said Ruhul.
Ershad, the deposed military dictator, on December 3, a day after the
closure of submission of nominations for the 10th parliament elections
scheduled for January 5, 2014, announced that his party would boycott
the polls and asked his party candidates to withdraw their nominations.
On December 4, Ersahd asked his party leaders to quit the polls-time
cabinet and from the post of adviser to the prime minister.
Earlier on November 18, Ershad had announced that the party quitted the
Awami League-led alliance and urged the Bangladesh Nationalist Party to
join the election ‘to save the nation and to continue democratic
process.’
On December 5, Ruhul, Quder, Mujibul and Salma submitted their
resignations as ministers to Ershad and the party had then said that
Ershad would sumbit them to the president seeing him at Bangabhaban.
Ershad, however, on December 6 asked the party minister and adviser to submit their resignations to the prime minister.
Rawshan, Anisul and Ziauddin were reportedly unwilling to resign. Ruhul claimed that Ershad already got their resignations too.
None of the seven ministers and adviser went to their offices on Sunday. ( source)