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BNP acting president Tarique Rahman connected Thursday (December 25, 2025) visited his mother, Bangladesh's ailing erstwhile premier curate Khaleda Zia, astatine a hospital, media reports said, marking their archetypal reunion successful the state successful implicit 17 years.
The 60-year-old Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting president returned from self-exile successful London earlier successful the day, wherever helium had been surviving since 2008.
He visited his mother, octogenarian BNP Chairperson Zia, astatine a backstage infirmary successful Dhaka, wherever she is undergoing attraction for aggregate wellness issues, the State-run BSS quality bureau reported.
The mother-son reunion connected Bangladeshi ungraded comes aft much than 17 years, though they person met respective times successful London, the Dhaka Tribune paper reported.
Mr. Tarique reached the Evercare infirmary aft addressing thousands of enactment supporters gathered astatine the July 36 Expressway successful the capital, BSS reported.
His woman Dr. Zubaida Rahman and their girl Zaima Rahman reached the infirmary earlier him, the study said. They had accompanied Mr. Tarique from London to Dhaka.
Ms. Zia has been undergoing attraction astatine the infirmary since November 23 for aggregate wellness complications and was shifted to a coronary attraction portion (CCU) later.
On December 11, she was placed connected “ventilator enactment to springiness remainder to her lungs and different captious organs.”
Mr. Tarique returned location to a rousing invited and his instrumentality is expected to energise his enactment workers up of the February 12 parliamentary elections. He has emerged arsenic a starring contender for premier ministership successful the polls adjacent arsenic the country's Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, has been trying to propulsion a stiff contention to the BNP successful the polls.
