<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will celebrate Eid-ul-Azha with her close relatives, including sister Selina Islam and granddaughter Zahiya Rahman at her Gulshan residence on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Selina will go to Khaleda’s house bringing traditional food items at noon on Eid, while senior BNP&nbsp; leaders, including secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, will exchange greetings with her in the evening.</div><div><br></div><div>Talking to UNB, Selina said her sister is still sick and remains under the observation of doctors.</div><div><br></div><div>“So, we can’t always meet her directly any time we desire. As tomorrow (Sunday) is Eid, I will go to her house and spend the day with her,” she said.</div><div><br></div><div>Selina said Khaleda’s granddaughter Zahia, the younger daughter of late Arafat Rahman Koko, will also spend the Eid day with her.</div><div><br></div><div>She said some other close relatives, including her younger brother Shamim Eskandar's wife Nasrin Eskandar and mothers-in-law of her two sons, are also likely to meet the BNP chief.</div><div><br></div><div>Thrice-former prime minister Khaleda, 76, has long been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, heart, kidney, lung and eye problems.</div><div><br></div><div>She returned home after a 14-day stay in the capital's Evercare Hospital on June 24. The hospital visit was prompted by a mild heart attack, that led to doctors inserting an artificial ring, or stent, in one of her arteries where it had 95% blockage.</div><div><br></div><div>Two more blockages were found in the arteries of the BNP chairperson through a coronary angiogram, which may require stenting later. - UNB</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>