Politics

Fakhrul returns home tonight

Acting secretary general of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir returns home on Monday night after taking medical treatment abroad for nearly two months.“Mirza Fakhrul is scheduled to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by a Singapore Airlines around 10:30pm,” said BNP chairperson’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan.He said Fakhrul went to Singapore on Sunday from the USA to consult his doctors at National University Hospital, Singapore beforereturning home, Sayrul added.A party senior leader, wishing anonymity, said BNP chairpersonKhaleda Zia, now in London, asked Fakhrul to return home to look after the party as she is now outside the country.Getting released from jail six months after his arrest, the BNP acting secretary general went to Singapore for treatment at the National University Hospital there on September 27. He has blockage in his internal carotid artery.On August 10, he went to the USA from Singapore for a surgery to have the blockage removed at Cornell Hospital.