PM Heading to Feni to Attend Various Programs
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has departed for Feni on a daylong visit. His motorcade left his Gulshan residence by road at 8:40 AM on Thursday, October 1, according to Atiqur Rahman Rumon, the PM’s Additional Press Secretary. He informed that the PM will return to Dhaka in the evening after participating in a series of scheduled daylong programs in Feni.
This marks Tarique Rahman’s first official visit to Feni after assuming office as PM. During the visit, he is scheduled to attend several events in Parshuram and Fulgazi upazilas of the district. According to the schedule, the PM will inaugurate the ‘Muhuri-Kahua Flood Control, Drainage, and Irrigation Project Rehabilitation (Phase 1)’ project in the Ghatghar Muhuri Bridge area of Parshuram upazila at 12:30 PM.
At 1:30 PM, he will inaugurate a tree plantation program on the premises of Begum Khaleda Zia Women’s College in Fulgazi. At 2:00 PM, he is scheduled to launch the supply of electricity to the national grid from a rooftop solar power system installed at the Fulgazi Zila Parishad Dak Bungalow. At 3:30 PM, the PM will attend an event at the Fulgazi Government Pilot School grounds to distribute Family Cards and Farmer Cards, as well as honorariums to Imams, Muezzins, and personnel working in various religious institutions.
In the afternoon, he will perform the Zuhr prayer and have lunch at the Fulgazi Dak Bungalow. Upon completing his scheduled programs, he is expected to return to Dhaka in the evening. The village of Sreepur in Feni’s Fulgazi upazila is the ancestral home of the PM’s maternal grandfather, Eskandar Majumder. His mother, the late BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, was elected Member of Parliament five times from the Feni-1 constituency between 1991 and 2008.
Earlier, as part of the campaign for the 13th National Parliamentary Election, Tarique Rahman addressed an election rally at the Feni Pilot School grounds on January 25 while en route to Dhaka from Chattogram.
