Khaleda joins Armed Forces Day event after 12 years
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia on Thursday attended the Armed Forces Day reception programme at Senakunja after 12 years.
Chief adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus exchanged greetings with Khaleda Zia at the reception programme at Dhaka Cantonment.
Khaleda last attended the Armed Forces Day function in 2012.
She reached Senakunja the venue at about 4:30pm to be welcomed by the army chief and other senior officers.
Khaleda Zia was accompanied by Sharmila Rahman Sinthi, wife of Khaleda’s youngest son late Arafat Rahman.
Central leaders of the political party were also with her.
Earlier in the afternoon at about 3:30pm, the former prime minister left her residence Feroza in her white Prado vehicle to attend the function at Senakunja.
She attended the event in a wheelchair.
During the ceremony, chief adviser Yunus came to Khaleda Zia and inquired about her physical condition and discussed various issues for a while. Both of them were seen smiling. She left for home after the ceremony.
Student Movement Against Discrimination leaders, including advisers Mahfuz Alam, Nahid Islam and Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, also exchanged greetings with Khaleda Zia.
BNP press wing member Shamsuddin Didar said that party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee members Khandaker Musharraf, Abdul Moyeen Khan and AZM Zahid Hossain, vice-chairman Altaf Hossain Chowdhury were present with her.
