The body of BNP Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia will be kept at the Evercare Hospital mortuary overnight before being taken to her Gulshan residence on Wednesday morning.
“Madam’s (Khaleda’s) body has been kept at the Evercare Hospital mortuary for the night. On Wednesday morning, it will be taken to her residence Feroza,” said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.
He said family members and close relatives will bid her final farewell at her residence, Feroza, where she had been living since April 20, 2011.
After being evicted from her cantonment residence by the Awami League government in November 2010, the BNP Chairperson initially stayed for a few days on a second-floor apartment in a five-storey building in Gulshan-2, owned by her brother Shamim Eskander.
Later, she moved to Feroza, a two-storey rented house built on one bigha of land.
From Feroza, Sayrul said, Khaleda’s body will be taken to the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad, where her namaz-e-janaza will be held at 2:00 pm.
Following the janaza, she will be laid to rest beside the grave of her husband, late President Ziaur Rahman, at Zia Udyan in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka.
Khaleda Zia passed away around 6:00 am on Tuesday at Evercare Hospital after receiving treatment for more than a month.