BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed’s wife Hasina Ahmed has reached Shillong in the Indian state of Meghalaya on Monday.
She reached Kolkata in the morning and then reached Shillong at around 5:15pm.
BNP Assistant Office Secretary Abdul Latif Jony confirmed this to the Dhaka Tribune.
Family members said Mahbubul Kabir Moonmoon, the husband of Salahuddin’s sister, is accompanying Hasina.
Earlier she landed in Kolkata on a 9:20pm Air India flight last night, just hours after she got the visa.
The Dhaka Tribune has learned that Tabith M Awal, the BNP-backed mayoral candidate in the recently concluded Dhaka North City Corporation polls, has also gone to Shillong to meet Salahuddin.
Salahuddin, a joint secretary general of BNP, had been kept at the Undertrial Prisoner’s Cell at the Shillong Civil Hospital on charges of entering India without valid documents.
According to Indian media reports, local police have not produced him before court because he is still not fit enough. He might be brought to a court Monday or sometime later this week, if doctors give him the fitness clearance.
On Friday, Abdul Latif Jony, assistant office secretary of BNP, met Salahuddin for the second time at the Civil Hospital. Jony went to India a few days ago on business purposes and had travelled to Shillong to meet his senior party colleague.
He told the Indian media on Friday that Salahuddin needs to go to Singapore – where he had been taking treatment for kidney and heart problems – as facilities are not good at Shillong.
“He seems to be weak and is not sleeping well due to heart and kidney problems,” the Shillong Times quoted Jony as saying.
The BNP functionary also said that he and his family members will approach local authorities to discuss the possibilities of taking Salahuddin outside India for treatment.
They have also been in touch with some local lawyers to fight the legal battle once Salahuddin is taken to court.