Salahuddin losing memories, BNP leader says

BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, now at Shillong hospital in Indian Meghalaya state, is losing his memories, a senior party leader said today.

Salauddin is undergoing short-term memory loss, BNP’s Assistant Office Secretary Abdul Latif Jony, now in Shillong, told The Daily Star quoting the doctors at the hospital.

The physicians are conducting several tests to know further about Salahuddin’s health, the BNP leader said.

On last Monday evening, a Shillong police patrol spotted the BNP leader loitering in Golf Link area of the tourist city around two months after he had been allegedly picked up by plainclothes law enforcers from a house in Dhaka's Uttara area on March 10.

Meanwhile, Tabith Awal, the BNP-backed candidate who contested the Dhaka North City Corporation polls for the mayoral post, corporation polls has reached Shillong to meet Salahuddin Ahmed.

“Salahuddin is developing skin disease and swellings all over his body and his kidney is not functioning properly,” Jony said quoting the BNP leader.

After meeting Salahuddin at the hospital, I noticed that the BNP leader is failing to recall the memories of the incidents he shared with me last time, Jony added.

“I appealed to the authority concerned at the hospital to form a high-powered medical board so that Salahuddin can get immediate treatment,” Jony added.

“I will submit necessary papers to the Indian court and government and we hope they will consider Salahuddin’s transfer to Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital for treatment.”

Subrata Acharjee, Kolkata correspondent of Bangladesh based newspaper Kaler Kantha and TV channel Somoy told The Daily Star today that he talked to doctor V Goshami – the physician who is treating Salahuddin. He will know detail about the Salahuddin’s health condition on Monday.

“The doctor will get Salahuddin’s test reports tomorrow,” Subrata Acharjee said quoting the doctor.