Rangpur waiting to welcome the bride

RANGPUR, July 31: The people of the district are eagerly waiting to greet the Prime Minister’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed’s wife Kristine Overmire as they are visiting the ancestral home in Rangpur, for the first time after thier marriage.

A helicopter carrying the Prime Minister and her family members is on the way to Rangpur.

Her son Joy and his wife Kristine, daughter Saima Wazed Putul and her husband, along with several top ruling party leaders are accompanying the Prime Minister.

The Premier will open Wazed Mia Bridge on the Kortoa River, the Zilla Parishad bungalow, and the regional passport office, and attend a rally of the Awami League’s local Peerganj unit.

Hasina’s in-law’s house, Mia Bari situated at Peerganj’s Fatehpur, has been decorated. Tight security arrangements have been made ahead of the visit.

Roads are covered with colourful archways.

A temporary helipad has been built near the house. The helicopter carrying the Prime Minister and her family members will land there.

They will go to the house in a motorcade.

After resting there for a while, Hasina will visit the grave of her husband with family members.

Awami League President Hasina is expected to attend a rally of her party’s local unit at the Peerganj Government High School after 2pm.

Joy is expected to address the rally as special guest, according to local party leaders.

Hasina was elected from the Rangpur-6 constituency in 2008. This is her third visit to Peerganj during her current term as the Prime Minister. On Sept 20 last year, she inaugurated the Teesta bridge in Rangpur’s Kawnia.

Asked whether Joy would contest the national polls from Peerganj, the district Awami League President Mamtaj Uddin Ahmed said the Prime Minister would decide that.

Tight security had been put in place ahead of the visit with deployment of around 2,500 police, RAB and special security force members.