BNP leader Tuku returns home after long exile
The BNP leader arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by a Thai Airways flight at 2pm
BNP standing committee member Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku today (6 October) returned home from London after a long exile.
The BNP leader arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by a Thai Airways flight at 2pm. BNP leaders and activists welcomed him at the airport.
Talking to reporters at the airport, Tuku said he was overwhelmed with emotion at this moment as he returned to the country after an exile of two and a half years. "Today I feel what I did after coming to Bangladesh on 16 December 1971 when I was a 22-23-year old youth," he said.
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The BNP standing committee member returned home after meeting BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman in London.
Later, he went to the grave of late President Ziaur Rahman in the capital's Sher-e Bangla Nagar area and placed a wreath there.
He was accompanied, among others, by BNP leaders Habibur Rahman Habib, Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas and Amirul Islam Alim at the time.
