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Medical board will decide if Khaleda needs hospital stay: Quader
DHAKA, July 5, 2019 (BSS) – Awami League General Secretary and Road
Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said a medical board
would decide whether BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia should stay at
hospital as she is now being treated at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical
University Hospital.
“The medical board and jail authority will decide how many days Khaleda
Zia should stay at hospital,” he told a press conference at the AL
president’s Dhanmondi political office here.
Asked if Khaleda sought parole, Quader said there are some conditions to
seek parole and “if she doesn’t have any valid reason, why she will seek
parole?”.
He, however, said it was up to the government to decide whether she would
get parole or not if she wanted it.
About the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s China visit, the minister said
“China is our development partner. During the visit, MoUs of US$2 billion have
been signed with China. The MoUs were singed for development.”
But, he said, BNP leaders does not see any development in the country.
Quader said Sheikh Hasina strongly projected the Rohingya crisis to the
Chinese leaders and China assured her of mounting pressures on Myanmar to
bring back their nationals from Bangladesh.
About the gas price hike, the minister said there are some logical reasons
to increase the gas price but the government high-ups could reconsider the
proposed hike. “But I don’t think there is any scope to reconsider it,” he said.
Awami League Organizing Secretaries – – State Minister for Shipping Khalid
Mahmud Chowdhury and Deputy Minister for Education Barrister Mohibul Hassan
Chowdhoury Nowfel, Relief and Social Welfare Secretary Sujit Roy Nandi, Deputy
Office Secretary Barrister Biplab Barua and Central Working Committee member
SM Kamal Hossain, among others, were present on the occasion.
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