BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will go to Cox’s Bazar on Sunday to visit refugee camps for the Rohingya, who have fled to Bangladesh to escape persecution in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
The decision was taken at a meeting of BNP standing committee members on Monday night, a BNP leader present there, told UNB wishing anonymity.
According to the BNP leader, Khaleda will start for Cox’s Bazar on Saturday and will spend the night in Chittagong.
From there, she will go to the refugee camps on Sunday morning.
Earlier, the BNP policymakers held a meeting at BNP’s chairperson’s Gulshan office with Khaleda in the chair.
The meeting which began around 8:40pm ended around 10:15pm. However, there was no media briefing.
BNP chairperson’s media wing member Shamsuddin Didar said party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir would disclose the decisions of the meeting on Tuesday at a press conference at BNP’s Naya Paltan headquarters.
More than 600,000 Rohingya have escaped to Bangladesh since late August after the Myanmar army launched a violent ‘clearance operation’ targeting the minority.
