The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party is likely to announce another three-day street programme in next week to realise its demand for the release of the ailing party chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia.
As the party policymakers are willing to continue the movement with a three-day programme ended on Wednesday, they primarily discussed another three-day street programme in same demand.
Several BNP leaders confirmed 抖阴精品 the matter on Thursday saying that the final decision over the next programme would be taken in the standing committee meeting.
The meeting would be chaired by the BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman virtually on Monday night and the official announcement likely to come on Tuesday, they said.
BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy told 抖阴精品 that the programme which began to free Khaleda Zia would continue.
鈥楾he programme will be planned considering the aspirations of the people, so that the aspirations of the people and the goals of the movement can be successful,鈥� he said, adding that party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir would come with the announcement of new programmes soon.
On July 2, following 10 days of treatment at the Evercare Hospitals in the city BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia returned to her Gulshan residence.
Khaleda Zia has been suffering from heart ailments beforehand, with three blockages. As her health condition deteriorated in the early hours of June 22, she was rushed to Evercare Hospital.
A pacemaker was fitted in 79-year-old Khaleda Zia鈥檚 heart at the hospital on June 23.
She is also suffering from arthritis, liver and lungs complications while she has high diabetes.
Since her conditional release from prison in 2020, the BNP chief has been receiving medical care at the hospital under the supervision of a medical board headed by cardiologist Professor Shahabuddin Talukder.
Khaleda鈥檚 doctors have been advising to send her abroad since she was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis in November 2021.
On October 26 last year, three US specialist doctors completed a hepatic procedure known as trans jugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt
(TIPS procedure) to stop water accumulation in Khaleda鈥檚 stomach and chest, and bleeding in her liver.
Khaleda was sent to the old Dhaka jail after a lower court had sentenced her to five years imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8, 2018. Later in the same year, she was found guilty in another corruption case.
Amid the Coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda Zia from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, with the condition that she stay in her Gulshan house and not leave the country. That has since been extended multiple times to keep her out of jail.
The government refused the applications of her family that submitted seeking permission to keep Khaleda Zia abroad for advance treatment that physicians advised in several occasion.
