BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir celebrated his 77th birthday at the Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on Friday.
Mirza Fakhrul's wife Rahat Ara Begum, younger daughter Shfaru Mirza Shumi, and sister Nazma Kalam met him at the jail and wished him on birthday, said BNP chairperson's media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan on Friday.
The relatives of Mirza Fakhrul went to the prison around 12:00 pm and stayed there for about 45 minutes with him. They also took foods of his likings, as well as a cake, he added.
He said Mirza Fakhrul’s sister Nazma Kalam came from the US to meet her brother on his birthday.
Mirza Fakhrul was born in Thakurgaon on 26 January 1948. He had involvement with left politics during his student life, completed his graduation and post-graduation from Dhaka University’s Economics department.
Later, he took up teaching as his profession through the BCS examination. Fakhrul quit teaching during the 80s and joined politics formally.
He was elected MP from Thakurgaon-1 with BNP’s ticket in 2001 and then made a state minister. He was also elected MP from the Bogura-6 seat in the 11th parliamentary election. But he did not take oath as BNP rejected the election results.
Fakhrul was made acting secretary general of BNP after the death of the party’s then secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain in 2011. He was given full charge of the party’s secretary general five years later in 2016.
Mirza Fakhrul has been in jail since 29 October when police arrested him a day after BNP leaders and activists engaged in clashes with the police centering the BNP grand rally on 28 October.
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