Khalida Zia death: EAM Jaishankar to attend funeral in Dhaka; PM Modi pays tribute

NEW DELHI: External affairs curate S Jaishankar volition be the ceremonial of Bangladesh's erstwhile premier curate Begum Khaleda Zia successful Dhaka tomorrow, the ministry if outer affairs said connected Tuesday."The outer affairs minister, Dr. S Jaishankar volition correspond the authorities and radical of India astatine the ceremonial of Begum Khaleda Zia, erstwhile Prime Minister of Bangladesh and chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He volition accordingly sojourn Dhaka connected 31 December 2025," the connection from MEA read.Prime Minister Narendra Modi mourned Zia's death, saying that arsenic the archetypal pistillate premier of Bangladesh, her important contributions towards the improvement of the country, arsenic good arsenic India-Bangladesh relations, volition ever beryllium remembered.

PM Modi besides recalled his “warm meeting" with her successful Dhaka successful 2015. "We anticipation that her imaginativeness and bequest volition proceed to usher our partnership,” helium said.Zia who was Bangladesh's archetypal pistillate premier curate and besides the chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, passed distant connected Tuesday. She was 80. She played a large relation successful restoring ideology aft a play of tumultuous subject regularisation and dominated the country's authorities for decades.

Her agelong governmental career, marked by periods successful situation and location arrest, was shaped by a fierce rivalry with Hasina. She was cleared of corruption charges and permitted to question to London for aesculapian attraction lone aft Hasina’s exit from office.She was readying to contention the February parliamentary elections, which volition beryllium Bangladesh’s archetypal polls since the fashionable uprising successful precocious 2024 that removed Sheikh Hasina from power.The BNP is wide seen arsenic a beardown contender successful the upcoming elections pursuing the illness of Sheikh Hasina’s authorities which had maintained adjacent ties with New Delhi.