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Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad on Thursday has announced that he is pulling out of the Dhaka -17 election race after returning from Singapore.
The JaPa chief confirmed it at a press conference, a day after his returned from Singapore, according to a report on bdnews24.com.
Ershad also instructed the candidates of his party to follow the decisions made by the Grand Alliance and extended his support Awami League candidate and actor Akbar Hossain Khan Pathan Farooque.
Farooque, a Bangla film actor, was chosen by the ruling party to contest the seat that comprises the capital’s diplomatic zone of Gulshan and Banani.