BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, who was picked up by plainclothes police and then admitted to Apollo Hospital in the city on Saturday, is learnt to have left the hospital without informing the hospital authorities early Wednesday. By the afternoon Rizvi made is presence felt by briefing journalists from an undisclosed residence partially ending the speculation and said the blockade programme would continue.
His silent departure from the hospital had given rise to speculations, because in the given circumstances, plainthothes police who picked him up were normally not expected to leave him alone, especially when the acting secretary general of the party Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was arrested after 24 hours of keeping the National Press Club under virtual siege by police on Tuesday afternoon.Rizvi was picked up obviously to weaken Bnp-led 20-party’s 07 January rally at Naya Paltan and subsequent anti-government agitations. The officer-in-charge Sarwar Hossain of Bhatara police station inside the Basundhara Residential Area, where the Apollo Hospital is licated, confirmed the disappearance of Rizvi from the hospital, but his whereabouts remained unclear till he briefed the press later in the day.
News agency UNB had reported – one of Rizvi’s assistants told journalists preferring anonymity that he left the hospital around 3:30 am and now he is safe.
Plainclothes police picked up Ruhul Kabir Rizvi from the party central office on Saturday night. The BNP joint secretary general had been on saline while he was whisked away in an ambulance.
Around 11:40pm on Saturday, a medical team, led by gastrologist Dr ASM Raihan of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, arrived at the BNP office at the request of Rizvi to examine him.
After a primary medical check-up, the medical team said the BNP leader was suffering from gastrological problem and nausea, and he needs a complete bed rest for a few days.
Minutes after the medical team left the BNP office, the detectives entered it and took him to hospital in an ambulance.
He was detained two days before the January-5 rally of the BNP-led 20-party alliance in the capital, marking what it says ‘Democracy Killing Day’.- News Desk
