Tarique Rahman, the party acting chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been returning to Bangladesh after 17 years of exile in London. He reached Dhaka on Thursday with his wife and daughter and this was an important political event in the country. On arrival, Rahman would visit the 300 Feet zone in Purbachal where he will hold a massive rally in a huge crowd and where high-security will be provided.
It is also at a very critical moment, when Rahman comes back to Bangladesh, where political tension and intermittent violence are on the rise, after one of the youth leaders, Sharif Osman Hadi, died last week. On December 18, after surviving an assault in Dhaka this month, Hadi succumbed to injuries in a hospital in Singapore.
The BNP leader and the son of the former prime minister, Khaleda Zia, is considered a formidable candidate to the prime ministerial office during the general elections that are likely to be held in the year 2026 (February). His return home has attracted large crowds with thousands of his followers going out there to greet him in the winter cold after almost twenty years abroad.
Rahman and his family were on a Biman Bangladesh airlines flight that had briefly stopped the Osmani international Airport in Sylhet at around 9:58 am and then proceeded to Dhaka. At least the security personnel have provided complex security measures in the capital concerning his arrival and his subsequent interactions with the people.
In the meantime, the situation with security is strained in Bangladesh. Wednesday, it led to a worse scenario as unknown attackers supposedly threw a crude bomb on a flyover close to the Moghbazar area of the Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad in Dhaka. The blast, according to the local media reports killed one person on the spot as confirmed by the Inspector (operations) of the Hatirjheel Police Station, Md Mohiuddin.
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