BANGLADESH NEWS
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday went on a two-day visit to Bogra and Joypurhat.
She will offer her condolences to family members of those killed in
recent acts of violence between opposition activists and law enforcers,
party sources said.
The BNP chief started for Bogra from her Gulshan residence around 4:00pm
yesterday. She was accompanied by BNP leaders including Selima Rahman,
Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Mirza Abbas.
A team of leaders of BNP and its associated bodies, led by its acting
secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, is already in Bogra to
make preparations in advance of the visit.
Khaleda, staying for the night at Bogra Circuit House, will start for Joypurhat along with the leaders around 11:00am today.
On the way, she will meet family members of the victims, who were shot
dead in police firing on March 3. She will meet them at Matidali
intersection of Bogra around 11:30am.
At Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat, she will hold a condolence meeting on the premises of Salaipur High School around 1:00pm.
They will start back for Bogra at 2:15pm and have lunch at the Circuit House in Bogra.
Around 3:30pm, Khaleda will visit a Hindu temple that recently came under attack by religious bigots in Gabtoli upazila.
Khaleda will speak to some other families of the March 3 victims on the
Aria Bazar School premises in Shahjahanpur upazila, Bogra, at 5:00pm.
She will depart for Dhaka around 6:00pm.
The former prime minister was scheduled to visit Bogra on Friday but she
postponed the tour until yesterday to mark the three-day mourning
period over the death of President Zillur Rahman.
Khaleda requested that no gates be built on her way to welcome her.
Likewise, she told party men in Bogra not to host a reception for her.
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