Jatiya Party will go to power in the coming general election by the grace of God because they are fed up with the two major parties, he said at two public meetings here Saturday night.

He came here leading a 'long march' to protest violence, anarchy, bomb attacks and other crimes.

The 'long march' started from Dhaka Saturday morning and will terminate in Panchagarh.

Ershad said people no longer want to see two parties (Awami League and BNP) in power. They got nothing but violence, misrule and corruption during the rule by the two parties in last 14 years, Ershad said.

If placed in power, Jatiya Party will remove crimes in society. There was no incident of bomb throwing in the country during the rule of Jatiya Party, he claimed.

These two parties can not curb crimes because their men are sheltering terrorists to do politics.

He called upon the people to rally round his party to rise against crimes, violence and corruption.

Ershad said the Jatiya Party government had set up many mills in the country, but many of those have been closed or have become sick in the last 14 years due to corruption.

He said he had initiated construction of the Bangabandhu Jamuna Bridge. It was completed during the rule of Awami League.

On his way from Dhaka, Ershad addressed a numbers of public meetings at different places.

Ershad accompanied by party leaders former minister ABM Rhul Amin Hawlader, Kazi Zafar Ahmed, Amjad Hossain, Shafiul Alam Prodhan, Shawkat Hossain Nilu and a large number of party men.

Presided over by Lutfar Rahman Chowdhury, the first meeting in Gaibandha district was held at Gobindagnaj Shaheed Miner and the second one at Palashbari High School ground. They left for Rangpur at 10-30 pm.