BNP top leaders to meet Khaleda Zia

BNP top leaders to meet Khaleda Zia

Dhaka, Mar 6 (Just News): A 10-member BNP delegation, including its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, will meet their chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in jail on Wednesday.

They will go to the old central jail at Nazimuddin Road at 3:00pm to meet Khaleda, BNP chairperson's media wing member Shamsuddin Didar said on Tuesday night.

He said the authorities concerned have given permission to nine party standing committee members and BNP chief's special assistant ABM Abdus Sattar to meet Khaleda Zia in jail.

The nine standing committee members are Mirza Fakhrul, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Moudud Ahmed, Jamiruddin Sircar, Mahbubur Rahman, Abdul Moyeen Khan, Mirza Abbas, Nazrul Islam Khan and Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury.

On 8 February last, a special court sentenced Khaleda Zia to five years imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust case.

Khaleda Zia, a 73-year-old a former prime minister, was taken to the old central jail minutes after the delivered the verdict.

(Justnews/ys/2320)