Dhaka, April 3 -- BNP on Wednesday feared that its chairperson Khaleda Zia is probably being "slowly poisoned by the government" in the name of treatment.

"We fear whether the government is slowly poisoning her in the name of treatment or any other means. People are also questioning how has she fallen so sick?" said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.

Speaking at a milad mahfil, he also voiced doubt whether the director of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) is giving the right information about its chairperson's health condition as he is saying she is not critically ill.

He said the doctors who visited Khaleda in jail revealed that she was seriously sick. "After she had been brought to PG (BSMMU), its...