Khaleda Zia returns home

BNP wants talk with govt on EC

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Staff Reporter :
BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on Thursday returned home from Saudi Arabia after performing Hajj.
Besides, the party on the same day expressed their wills to talk with government to form next election commission. The party Vice-Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu raised it before the media.
The BNP chief arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in
Dhaka around 5:10pm by a flight of Emirates Airlines.
Several thousand leaders and activists of the party welcomed her by waving hands and shouting slogans standing on both sides of the airport road as she came out of the airport around 5:30pm.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, senior leaders Mirza Abbas, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, Abdullah Al Noman, Shahjahan Omar, Mohammad Shahjahan, Abdul Awal Mintoo, AZM Zahid Hossain, Netai Roy Chowdhury, Khairul Kabir Khokan, Abdus Salam Azad, Shirin Sultana, Rafik Sikdar and Shahjahan Mia Samrat were, among others, present.
Wrapping up her 15-day Saudi tour, Khaleda along with her family members, including BNP senior vice chairman and her eldest son Tarique Rahman, left Jeddah King Abdul Aziz International Airport in the morning for Dubai.
Saudi unit BNP leaders and activists saw them off at the airport.
After reaching Dubai, Khaleda bade fare well to her son, daughters in laws and grand daughters, and started her journey for home.
Tarique Rahman and other family members went to London by another flight of the Emirates Airlines.
On 7 September, Khaleda Zia along with her entourage had left here by a flight of Saudi Airlines to perform hajj at the invitation of Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
Meanwhile the BNP on Thursday hoped that the government will take an initiative to resolve ‘national crisis’ through dialogues.
The party also welcomed Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam’s comment to keep constitutional institutes, including the election commission, out of controversy, BNP Vice-Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu said ‘We would like to thank Syed Ashraful Islam for his remarks. We never like to destabilise the country. We hope the government will take an initiative to engage in dialogue with the opposition, giving importance to the national crisis’.
He said it while speaking at a press briefing at the party’s Nayapaltan office.
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