BNP leader to meet Salahuddin at Shillong

BNP Assistant Office Secretary Abdul Latif Jony reached Shillong, the capital of the north-eastern Indian state of Meghalaya, in a bid to meet with the party’s leader Salahuddin Ahmed.

Jony left the country yesterday and reached Shillong on the same day where Salahuddin is being treating at a local hospital under police custody, Hasina Ahmed, wife of the BNP Joint Secretary General, told The Daily Star over phone today.

However, further details on the visit could not be known immediately.

On Monday, a Shillong police spotted the BNP leader loitering in the Golf Link area of the tourist city around two months after he had been allegedly picked up by plainclothes law enforcers from a house in Dhaka's Uttara area on March 10.

“As per the BNP high-ups, Jony went there to look after Salahuddin and talk about the repatriate issue,” Hasina Ahmed added, hoping her husband’s quick return to Bangladesh.

Indian police would send Salahuddin back to Bangladesh if the court orders, a top police official in Meghalaya told The Daily Star yesterday.
Salahuddin, now receiving treatment at Shillong Civil Hospital will be produced before a Meghalaya court once the hospital authorities release him, said Vivek Syiem, superintendent of police (city) of East Khasi Hills in the Indian state of Meghalaya.

Hasina Ahmed however expressed her disappointment on not yet receiving her Indian visa, although she applied for it on Tuesday.