"We are yet to decide on forming form alliance either with Awami League or BNP", he told a public meeting on Pirganj High School premises on his way to Rangpur from Dhaka. He came to Rangpur on a three-day tour.

He said the people want to see Jatiya Party in power again as it did more development work in its nine years' rule than the two parties which ruled the country for about 13 years.

He said Jatiya Party's precondition for alliance will be an assurance of development in Northen districts.

"Neither Awami League nor BNP did any development in greater Rangpur-Dinajpur region in the last 13 years."

He criticised the two parties for depriving the region out of "vengeance".

The former president proposed a new electoral system for general election which, he said, will ensure participation of all parties in polls.

As per his proposal, political parties will get parliament members on the basis of ratio of votes polled by them and the party or alliance that will get the highest percentage of vote will form the government.

Ershad said mere change in the system of caretaker government is not enough to ensure free and fare election. Rather, the total electoral system should be changed, he added.

With Shajahan Ali Prodhan in the chair, the meeting was addressed by, among others, JP Secretary General ABM Ruhul Amin Hawlader, Presidium member G.M Quader MP, the party's district unit president Karim Uddin Bharsa MP and member of JP Advisory Committee Ahmed Sharif.