Previous PM Khaleda Zia’s child, 58-year-old Rahman is de facto chief of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). He is set to return after nearly twenty years of self-exile in London
In 2008, the then army-backed caretaker federal government in Bangladesh sent him to London for medical treatment while legal treatments were underway versus him on numerous criminal and graft cases.
Now, after practically 20 years of self-exile, Tarique Rahman, presently the acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has actually revealed that he will “return quickly” to object to the February 2026 basic elections– the very first considering that the ouster of
Sheikh Hasina
‘s federal government following a violent uprising in 2015.