Jatiya Party leader Hussain Muhammad Ershad had suspended Kazi Zafar Ahmed in 2013, for participation in a Hefazat-e-Islam rally in Motijheel.
[3] Ahmed criticised Ershad for Jatiya Party's partition at the Awami League-facilitated 2014 Bangladeshi general elections.
[4] Golam Moshi joined the Kazi Zafar faction of Jatiya Party.
On 25 January 2014, the faction joined the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led 20 Party Alliance.
[3][6][7] After Ahmed's death in August 2015, TIM Fazle Rabbi Chowdhury and Mostafa Jamal Haider were appointed the chairman and general-secretary respectively.