Want to see Salahuddin as soon as possible: Wife

The wife of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed today said she wants to meet her husband as early as possible.

“I want to meet him as soon as possible on completion of the visa process,” Hasina Ahmed said at a press conference at her Gulshan residence this afternoon, a day after Salahuddin was found at an Indian mental hospital.

“We heard Salahuddin was arrested in India,” Hasina said adding that family members would decide the next course of action about bringing him back to the country after visiting him in India.

Asked about Salahuddin’s condition, Hasina said he has no mental issue.

The family is now trying to talk with Salahuddin at the civil hospital in India, where he was shifted from the mental hospital in Shillong, over phone but could not make it.

BNP standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan has gone to the Indian Embassy for getting visas for Hasina and two of her relatives, Syrul Kabir Khan, a staff of BNP chief's media wing, told The Daily Star in the afternoon.

A joint secretary general of BNP, Salahuddin was allegedly picked up by plainclothes officials from a house in Uttara on March 10, according to his family members. The law enforcers however denied picking him up.

He was missing for the last two months until he called his wife yesterday.

Hasina held a press briefing at Salahuddin’s residence yesterday afternoon where she told the press that she got a call from the NIMHANS Mental Hospital authorities in Shillong at 12noon.

Salahuddin was arrested by Indian police on charge of entering the country without travel documents, according to Indian police.