India, Jan. 1 -- Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Thursday linked the deterioration of former prime minister Khaleda Zia's health to imprisonment.

Nazrul, a BNP Standing Committee member, said that Hasina would not be able to evade responsibility in the death of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, The Daily Star reported.

While speaking shortly after the funeral prayers for Khaleda were completed at the Manik Mia Avenue, Nazrul said that the former PM went to jail on February 8, 2018 "after being subjected to the personal vengeance" from Hasina. "But she came out of prison seriously ill," The Daily Star quoted Nazrul as saying.

Nazrul further said that the prolonged imprisonment of Khaleda, the first woman PM of ...