Staff Reporter:
BNP standing committee member Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku returned home on Sunday from London after a long exile.
The BNP leader arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by a Thai Airways flight at 2pm. BNP leaders and activists welcomed him at the airport.
Talking to reporters at the airport, Tuku said he was overwhelmed with emotion at this moment as he returned to the country after an exile of two and a half years. “Yesterday I feel what I did after coming to Bangladesh on December 16, 1971 when I was a 22-23-year old youth,” he said.
The BNP standing committee member returned home after meeting BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman in London.
Later, he went to the grave of late President Ziaur Rahman in the capital’s Sher-e Bangla Nagar area and placed a wreath there.
He was accompanied, among others, by BNP leaders Habibur Rahman Habib, Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas and Amirul Islam Alim at the time.
