Zubaida’s leave ended on October 11, 2011
BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman’s wife Dr Zubaida Rahman has been dismissed from her job as she remains absent from her work station without any official permission for too long.
The issue came to light as Health Minister Mohammad Nasim replied to a supplementary query of Awami League MP Talukder Md Yunus in parliament yesterday.
Yunus asked if any action had been taken about Zubaida who has been living abroad being absent from job for so long. Nasim laughingly replied: “Law is equal for all and we have taken action about this. She has been dismissed.”
The Section 34 of the country’s service rules provides for any person to be terminated from their job if they remain absent from workplace without any official permission.
Zubaida’s leave ended on October 11, 2011.
Since then, she had applied for extending her leave several times, but was refused.
The ministry rejected her applications, saying that they could not be satisfied with the grounds she was showing.
She is staying in the UK with her husband.
Daughter of former navy chief MA Khan, Zubaida came to the limelight in 2007 when the then government arrested Khaleda and her two sons Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman Koko – the latter also charged with corruption and money laundering in five cases. Koko has been in Bangkok on parole.
Tarique was arrested during the army-backed caretaker government in 2007. He left the country, on parole, for treatment in London on September 11, 2008. Despite facing a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission, Zubaida has a “good image” among the party’s rank and file.
The BNP’s Standing Committee on April 10 last year discussed Zubaida’s probable induction into politics, but did not make any decision on the issue.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
