What actually happened to Tarique

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The BNP’s senior joint secretary general, Tarique Rahman, grazed his forehead slipping on the bathroom floor in his prison cell at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSSMU) yesterday.

A BSMMU press release said Tarique was fully conscious and was talking normally. He neither fell unconscious nor vomited following the fall, it said.

Echoing the release, prison authorities said the BNP leader had his lunch as usual and was feeling normal. They, however, said he will be on observation for the next 48 hours.

A doctor, who sits on a medical board formed earlier for Tarique’s treatment, however told reporters that he hurt his forehead, back, knee and ankle.

“Tarique went to the bathroom at about 12:15 noon. As he was about to come out, he felt he could not move his right leg. He tried to walk on his left leg and fell on the sink,” Dr Kazi Mazharul Islam Dolon, orthopaedic specialist at the BSMMU, said.

He said Tarique will undergo different medical examinations including CT scan and MRI.

DIG (Prisons) Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui told reporters after visiting Tarique that he cut his forehead slightly.

“I had a conversation with Tarique. He talked with me normally and his pressure was normal,” he said.

He said the chief adviser and the home affairs adviser enquired about Tarique’s condition and directed the authorities to ensure proper treatment for him.

Asked whether Tarique was out of danger or not, the DIG (prisons) said he will be on observation for the next 48 hours.

“If needed, he would be sent abroad for treatment which is the matter of the government,” he said.

Tarique’s wife Dr Zubaida Rahman went to the hospital soon after the news. She, however, refused to talk with reporters.

After visiting Tarique, his lawyer advocate Ahmed Azam claimed that his life was at stake after the accident.

“When I saw him, he seemed almost unconscious,” he said. “I asked him about his health condition, but he was too sick to say anything”, he said adding that Tarique cannot be said to be out of danger before 48 hours.

BNP and its front organisation leaders, including Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain, BNP chairperson’s adviser Brig Gen (retd) Hannan Shah, Nazrul Islam Khan, Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, Selima Rahman, rushed to the BSMMU to see Tarique. They were, however, denied entry.

Delwar termed the denial inhuman. He said the BNP will announce tough programmes if the government does not reach a deal with the BNP on Tarique and Khaleda’s release.

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