Self-exiled de facto BNP chief to return to B’desh to contest Feb polls

The acting chairman and eldest son of former premier Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Monday announced that he would “return soon’, ending his 26 years in self-exile in London to contest the February general election.

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Tarique Rahman in an interview to BBC Bangla said, “For some reasonable reasons my return has not happened... but the time has come, and I will return soon”

‘The 58-year-old de facto chief of the BNP added, “I am running in the election (as well).” Asked about the possibility of assuming office as prime minister if the BNP formed the government, he said “The people will decide”