Fakhrul Off to Singapore for Health Checkup

BSS

Publish : 07 Apr 2026, 11:37 AM

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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General and Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has left Dhaka for Singapore for a routine health check-up.

He, accompanied by his wife Rahat Ara Begum, departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) by a Singapore Airlines flight at 11:55 pm on Monday, minister's Assistant Private Secretary Md.Younus Ali told BSS.

He is expected to return home after a week.

In 2015, while in prison, Fakhrul was diagnosed with a blockage in an artery in his neck. After his release, he went to Singapore for treatment. Since then, he has been visiting the country regularly for follow-up check-ups.

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