BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday urged the government to take necessary steps so that the ailing former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and freedom fighter Sadeque Hossain Khoka could return home from the US.

“He (Khoka) told us and his friends to bury him in Bangladesh. His son also called me this (Sunday) morning to that his family wants to fulfil this wish of his father’s,” Mirza Fakhrul said on Sunday (Nov 3).

Speaking at a Doa Mahfil, he further said: “We call upon the government to take steps so that he can return to the country.”

Dhaka North city unit BNP arranged the program at the party’s Naya Paltan office, seeking early recovery of Khoka, a vice-chairman of the party.

Khoka has been undergoing treatment in a very critical condition at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York since October 18.