Fakhrul Meets Khaleda

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir met party Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday night.

Fakhrul went to Khaleda’s Gulshan residence at around 8:30pm and inquired about her health condition, BNP media cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan told UNB.

He said the BNP Secretray General met the the party chief to mainly know about her health condition as she has been undergoing treatment there by her doctors for various ailments.

Earlier on June 17, the BNP Chairperson returned to her Gulshan home from Evercare Hospital after undergoing various medical tests and receiving treatment for four days.

Khaleda, 78, has long been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart and eye problems. Since her conditional release in 2020, the BNP chief has been receiving treatment at the hospital under a medical board headed by cardiologist Prof Shahabuddin Talukder.

Khaleda was sent to the Old Dhaka Central Jail as a lower court sentenced her to five years‍‍` imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8, 2018. Later, she was found guilty in another corruption case the same year.

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with conditions that she will stay in her Gulshan house and will not leave the country.