Staff Reporter :
The physical condition of former Mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP Vice Chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka is in critical condition.
He is fighting for life at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, New York.
BNP leader Khoka’s death rumour has been spread on social media from Thursday late night.
Khoka’s elder son Ishraque Hossain on Friday noon denied of his father’s death rumour claims on media.
He said, “His father is now at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital where he was kept alive providing high level of oxygen and he might be kept on life support anytime.”
“Doctors have given up hope of improving health condition of my father and stopped all sorts of treatment,” Ishraque said.
BNP leader Khoka, a Freedom Fighter, stepped into politics through Moulana Bhasani’s National Awami Party (NAP).
Later, he joined BNP and was made the party’s Dhaka city unit president.
Khoka was first elected MP in 1991. Later, he contested Dhaka City Corporation election in 2002 and was elected Mayor. He held the post for nearly nine years.
