Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has provided Tk1.82 crore as financial assistance to the families of late footballers, hockey players, film actor, littérateur and people critically injured in violent acts carried out by BNP-Jamaat-e-Islami alliance.
The prime minister handed over the cheques to the 12 families at her office in Dhaka on Sunday, reports UNB.
The recipients of the assistance included late footballer Monem Munna's wife Yeasmin Munna, late hockey player Zahidur Rahman Pushkin's wife Fahmida Rahman, and late hockey star Jumman Lusai's wife Puei Lusai.
Actor Sarwar Uddin Danyraj, poet and photographer Billal Hossain, and Jamal Pasha and Nurjahan who were injured in separate incidents of violence unleashed by BNP-Jamaat supporters in Chittagong’s Fatikchhari and Chapainawabganj, respectively.
The prime minister gave the financial assistance from her Relief Fund to meet the treatment cost and bear the family expenditures.
