Khaleda turns 80 today

BNP chairperson and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia turns 80 today (Thursday), reports UNB.

The BNP chief is now undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in the capital.

The party will arrange a milad and doa mahfil at its offices across the country, including at Nayapaltan central office, tomorrow (Friday) instead of Thursday to mark the day.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday said his party will hold the milad mahfils praying for the long life of Khaleda and the salvation of the departed souls of those students and mass people who embraced martyrdom during the recent movement.

He called upon the leaders and workers of all levels of BNP and its associate bodies to spontaneously participate in these programmes.

As in the last eight years, the party has no programme to cut any cake to celebrate the birthday in the early hours of her birthday.

BNP has been marking her birthdays by holding doa mahfils instead of cutting any cake since 2016.

On July 8, Khaleda Zia was admitted to Evercare Hospital in the capital six days after she had been discharged from the same hospital with various ailments.

She has been kept under close observation of doctors in a cabin at the hospital, said her personal physician Professor Dr AZM Zahid Hossain.

He said the BNP chief has been given the necessary treatment as per the advice of the medical board formed for her treatment.