Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today sent a bouquet of flowers to BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia on her birthday.

BNP Standing Committee member and Khaleda Zia’s personal physician, Professor Dr AZM Zahid Hossain, confirmed the matter.

“As you know, today is the birthday of the ‘Mother of Democracy,’ three-time Prime Minister and our leader Begum Khaleda Zia. She does not celebrate the occasion, but the party is holding milad and doa mahfils across the country on the occasion,” he said.

Zahid said that officials from the Chief Adviser’s Office delivered the bouquet to Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan residence, “Firoza,” in the afternoon. Around 4:00 pm, the Chief Adviser’s Private Secretary Shazeeb M Khairul Islam and Director at the Chief Adviser’s Office (CAO) Mohammad Nazmul Islam handed it over to BNP Chairperson’s Private Secretary ABM Abdus Sattar.

BNP Executive Committee member Belayet Hossain, BNP Media Cell member Shairul Kabir Khan and the Chairperson’s Personal Wing official Masud Rahman were present during the handover.

Earlier on Thursday night, the Chinese Ambassador’s office also sent a birthday bouquet to the BNP chairperson.

Khaleda Zia was born on August 15, 1945, in Dinajpur. She turned 81 this year.

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