Government is pushing Khaleda to death: BNP

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Monday complained that the government was pushing the party’s imprisoned chairperson Khaleda Zia to death out of political vengeance.

BNP leaders also urged the government to release Khaleda Zia immediately for her advanced treatment.

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the request at a press conference organised by the party in its central office at Naya Paltan in Dhaka.

He alleged that the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital authorities had failed to provide her with proper and advanced treatment although the medical board observed that her leg had become almost crippled and suggested for advanced treatment.

The Supreme Court also had asked the authorities to provide her with proper treatment, he said.

The BNP leader said that Khaleda had sent message to them saying that she was not getting treatment at BSMMU Hospital and wanted advanced treatment right now.

Fakhrul also said that the hospital had no arrangement for advanced treatment.

‘The government is pushing her towards death only for political vengeance and was not releasing her,’ he alleged.

He urged the government to release her without any delay and arrange advanced medical treatment for her.

He said that they repeatedly wrote to the authorities seeking permission to meet Khaleda, but got no response.

Referring to Sunday’s meeting between Khaleda and her family members, he said that the family members had said that Khaleda was seriously ill and that the government was hindering her bail which she deserved.

‘To do so, the government has been controlling the judiciary. It is a matter of sorrow that they had been controlling the higher court,’ he said.

Almost all who were convicted in such charges for which Khaleda was convicted were later secured bail, Fakhrul said referring to incidents of former minister of BNP-led government Nazmul Huda and Awami League lawmaker and former minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir.

BNP vice-chairman AZM Zahid Hossain, a noted physician, said that the members of the medical board, for past three weeks, was scheduled to visit Khaleda by turn but on several days none visited her.

He said that the doctors of the medical board on Khaleda’s health were famous in their own field but there was no arrangement in BSMMUH to provide advanced treatment.

‘Actually, BSMMU is not an advanced medical centre,’ he added.

He referred that AL general secretary Obaidul Quader was admitted to BSMMUH but he was needed to take abroad for advanced treatment and that the prime minister’s military affairs secretary Jainul Abedin who was admitted to Combined Military Hospital was also taken abroad for providing advanced treatment.

‘So, advanced medical centre is needed for her advanced treatment,’ the physician said.

BNP standing committee members Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Moudud Ahmed, Mirza Abbas, Abdul Moyeen Khan, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku and senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi were present.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.com