A BNP delegation will meet Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Tuesday to discuss about the health condition and treatment of party chief Khaleda Zia.
BNP Standing Committee members, led by Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, are set to meet the home minister at 2:30pm at his Secretariat office, Khaleda's Personal Secretary ABM Sattar said.
He said, the home minister agreed to sit with the BNP delegation after Fakhrul contacted him over phone on Monday.
Sattar said the standing committee members who will accompany Fakhrul at the meeting will discuss various issues relating to Khaleda Zia's treatment and her illness.
BNP leaders have long been demanding proper treatment to their ailing chairperson as her health kept deteriorating.
Earlier in the day, BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said Khaleda Zia herself had told the court on Sunday that her physical condition was deteriorating. “Like the country's people, we are very worried about her health condition,” he added.
The BNP leader called upon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to shun “brutal and vindictive” attitude towards her arch rival and former prime minister Khaleda Zia.
“Release our leader instead of creating obstacles towards granting her bail. Such inhuman attitude was not shown even to the political prisoners in the colonial era. Don't sacrifice civilization, justice and humanity only to cling to power illegally. Eschew inhumanity and allow our leader to receive proper treatment through releasing her from jail,” Rizvi said towards Hasina.
He also announced that their party would form a human chain in front of National Press Club from 11am to 12pm on Wednesday demanding the unconditional release of Khaleda Zia and proper treatment of her.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been in jail since a special court convicted her in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case on February 8 last year.
