Former Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia attended the reception ceremony organized at Senakunja in Dhaka Cantonment on the occasion of Armed Forces Day.
When the BNP chairperson arrived at Senakunja on Friday (21 November) afternoon, she was received by Army Chief General Waker-uz-Zaman and Air Force Chief Air Marshal Hasan Mahmood Khan.
Earlier, BNP Standing Committee Member and her personal physician Professor AZM Zahid Hossain said that Khaleda Zia left her Gulshan residence ‘Firoza’ at 3:50 pm.
Khaleda Zia also attended the Senakunja event last year.
Accompanying the BNP chairperson is the wife of her late younger son, Arafat Rahman Koko.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Professor AZM Zahid Hossain are also accompanying her.
Shayrul Kabir Khan of BNP’s media cell said that Standing Committee Members Mirza Abbas, Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Abdul Moyeen Khan, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, Salahuddin Ahmed, Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku, and Hafiz Uddin Ahmed also attended the Senakunja ceremony.
The reception ceremony, hosted on behalf of the Chief Adviser, began at 4 pm at Senakunja in Dhaka Cantonment.
The event is being broadcast live by Bangladesh Television.