{"id":11616,"date":"2025-01-06T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T09:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=11616"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T09:30:32","slug":"bnp-leader-khaleque-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=11616","title":{"rendered":"BNP leader Khaleque no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ET Desk:<\/strong> Former BNP lawmaker and former vice-president of<br \/>\nundivided Dhaka City unit of BNP S A Khaleque passed away while undergoing<br \/>\ntreatment at a private hospital in the capital today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;S A Khaleque has breathed his last at 3:30 pm today at United Hospital,&#8221; BNP<br \/>\nmedia cell member Shairul Kabir Khan said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and BNP<br \/>\nChairperson&#8217;s Advisory Council member Abdus Salam visited ailing S A Khaleque<br \/>\nat the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Khaleque was admitted to the hospital and put on a ventilator<br \/>\non Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Shairul Kabir Khan said his namaz-e-janaza will be held tomorrow (January 6)<br \/>\nat 12 noon in front BNP&#8217;s Nayapaltan central office at 12noon and Mirpur<br \/>\nBangla College premises at 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>He will be laid to eternal rest at his family graveyard at Mirpur Shahi<br \/>\nMosque in Gabtali.<\/p>\n<p>Khaleque had been suffering from various complications including heart and<br \/>\ndiabetes for long.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from politics, he was also a prominent businessman.<\/p>\n<p>He joined BNP at the inspiration of BNP founder and former President Ziaur<br \/>\nRahman. After joining the party, he was elected as a member of parliament for<br \/>\nthe first time from the then Dhaka-14 constituency in the second Jatiya<br \/>\nSangsad election on February 18, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Later, SA Khalek was elected MP twice in a row in 1986 and 1988. Later, he<br \/>\nwas also elected MP in 1996 and 2001 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ET Desk: Former BNP lawmaker and former vice-president of undivided Dhaka City unit of BNP S A Khaleque passed away while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the capital today. &#8220;S A Khaleque has breathed his last at 3:30 pm today at United Hospital,&#8221; BNP media cell member Shairul Kabir Khan said. Earlier today, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and BNP Chairperson&#8217;s Advisory Council member Abdus Salam visited ailing S A Khaleque at the hospital. On Wednesday, Khaleque was admitted to the hospital and put on a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11618,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions\/11618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}