Staff Reporter :The wife of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed on Wednesday said that she, along with family members, wants to meet her husband as early as possible once she gets Indian visa. “We have already applied for Indian visa. We will set out for India’s Shillong to meet him on completion of the visa process,” Hasina Ahmed, Salahuddin’s wife, said in a press briefing at her Gulshan residence on Wednesday, a day after the BNP leader was found in a mental hospital in Meghalaya’s capital Shillong after over two months. Hasina Ahmed, also a former MP, said that the Indian High Commission told them that they were trying to grant the visa quickly. She, her brother-in-law Mahbubul Karim Bulbul and two others applied for the Indian visa. BNP standing committee member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan went to the Indian High Commission in Dhaka in this regard. About Salahuddin’s condition, Hasina said her husband has no mental issue. She could not contact him after Tuesday’s phone call, she said. Earlier on Tuesday, she said that her husband phoned her from Meghalaya Institute of Mental Health & Neurological Science (MIMHANS).Asked as to how she has planned to bring her husband back quickly since he has no passport with him and there are some legal complications, she said, “Let us go there first, we will decide what to do later.” Replying to another question, she said that they are expecting government’s cooperation. “We have always sought the government’s help. Nothing is possible without the government’s cooperation,” she said. BNP and Salahuddin’s family claim that law enforcers picked up the Joint-Secretary General of the party from a house in the capital’s Uttara on March 10. However, the government and the law enforcers denied the allegation. According to The Shillong Times, police on Monday morning arrested Salauddin from Golf Link of Shillong on charge of trespass without travel documents. He was admitted to the mental hospital. He was later shifted to the Shillong Civil Hospital. According to doctors, the BNP leader was suffering from ailments related to heart and kidneys.Meanwhile, State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that Salahuddin will be brought back through legal process. He told this while responding to reporters after a function in city’s Tejgaon.The minister also criticised the BNP for their claim that the law enforcers had picked up Salahuddin. Describing BNP leader Salahuddin’s appearance as mysterious and questionable, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said the mystery over it would be unveiled soon. “People came to know about the disappearance and trace of Salahuddin through his wife. From them we came to know that he is now in India. As a result, the matter is still shrouded in mystery,” he said while talking to reporters after visiting a construction site in Comilla.
