BNP leader Salahuddin’s wife seeks PM’s intervention to trace her husband

The wife of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, who has been ‘missing’ for the past two months, has once again sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s intervention to trace her husband.

“I have said it before and am reiterating that members of law-enforcing agencies had picked up my husband,” Hasina Ahmed told reporters on Saturday.
 
“We haven’t found him yet. I don’t want to know why they picked up my husband and where they are holding him.”
 
“I just again want to urge the prime minister to bring back my husband safe and sound to me and my children,” Hasina Ahmed said.
 
The family alleged that Salahuddin was whisked away by a group of plainclothesmen from a house at the capital’s Uttara on Mar 10.
 
His wife had submitted two memoranda to the prime minister seeking her intervention. She also moved the court to locate her husband.
 
But no law-enforcing agency so far claimed to have arrested him. Since then, Salahuddin has been off the grid.
 
BNP Organising Secretary and the party’s Sylhet unit President M Ilias Ali had also gone missing in 2012 allegedly in a similar manner.
 
His wife Tahsina Rashid Luna had also sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s intervention to find Ali, whose whereabouts is still unknown even after three years.
 
Several BNP leaders had visited the family of the party’s joint secretary general on Saturday afternoon.
 
Hasina Ahmed said, “I don’t want to dwell on the past. I won’t ask why he was taken. We just want him back. We are going through a very hard time without him.”
 
Salahuddin, a former MP from Cox’s Bazar, had served as an assistant private secretary to Khaleda during her 1991-96 term in office. He was then a junior civil servant. 

Before he went ‘missing, the BNP joint secretary general had been purportedly announcing programmes and issuing media statements on his party’s behalf from an undisclosed location after most of the senior BNP leaders were arrested amid their countrywide blockade.