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The BNP leader said a milad mahfil will be held at 11:00am at the party’s Nayapaltan central office.

Rizvi urged the leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies to take part in the programme spontaneously.

A doa and milad mahfil will also be arranged at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office after Asr prayers.

Born on August 15, 1945, in Dinajpur, Khaleda was elected the first female prime minister of Bangladesh in 1991. She served as the prime minister three times.

She is the fourth among four sisters and two brothers. Her father was Iskandar Ali Majumder and her mother Begum Tayyeba Majumdar. Although her ancestral home is in Fulgazi Upazila of Feni, she spent her childhood and adolescence in Dinajpur, where her father worked.

Khaleda entered politics after the assassination of her husband former president Ziaur Rahman on May 30, 1981. She first became the party’s vice-chairman and was elected chairperson in 1984.