Staff Reporter :
BNP Joint Secretary General and Member of Parliament (MP) Md Harunur Rashid on Tuesday said that the party Chairperson Khaleda Zia is willing to go abroad to take advanced medical treatment if she gets bail.
“She will go abroad tomorrow if she gets bail today. And her first priority will be to get treatment,” he said while speaking to the media after visiting BNP chief Khaleda Zia at the BSMMU hospital in the capital on Tuesday.
The two other MPs who accompanied Harun were Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan and Md Aminul Islam.
Harunur Rashid reiterated the party’s demand for her “immediate” transfer to a specialised hospital, describing her health. Now, she is undergoing treatment at BSMMU under the supervision of the jail authorities.
“I urge the government not to deprive her moral right to get bail,” he said.
“Of course she will go abroad for treatment if she gets the opportunity,” the MP said when a reporter asked whether she wanted to go overseas for treatment.
BNP alleged that Khaleda has been intentionally convicted of corruption, for which she has been serving altogether 17 years in jail since February last year.
The party blames the government for her incarceration terming it a plot to keep her away from politics and elections.
