BNP Secretary General and Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir went to Singapore for treatment. His wife Rahat Ara Begum is with him.
They left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a Singapore Airlines flight at 11:55 pm on Monday.
Confirming the matter, BNP media cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan said that the Secretary General has gone to Singapore for a health check-up.
It is known that the Fakhrul couple will return to the country after about a week.
They have gone to Singapore for treatment several times before. Last visit there for health checkup on 6th April 2025.
Mirza Fakhrul was diagnosed with a block in an artery in his neck while in prison in 2015. After being released from prison, he went to Singapore for treatment. Since then he has to go there every year for follow up treatment.
