Khaleda Zia death: Bangladesh Chief Adviser Yunus, PM Modi express condolences

Khaleda Zia, the longtime chief of the Bangladesh Nationalist Score collectively (BNP) and a three-time high minister, died on Tuesday morning (December 30, 2025) in Dhaka after a extended illness. She became 80.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (December 30) conveyed his “sincerest condolences” to the family of the leisurely light PM of Bangladesh Khaleda Zia and recollected her contributions to the pattern of Bangladesh and India-Bangladesh bilateral relations.

The Chief Adviser of the intervening time authorities of Bangladesh, Prof. Mohammed Yunus, moreover said that Begum Zia became no longer wonderful the chief of a political event but if truth be told she became an “crucial chapter of Bangladesh’s history’.

Paying tribute to Ms. Zia who passed away at a clinic in Dhaka, Prof. Yunus said in her death, Bangladesh has misplaced a “extensive gurandian” of the nation.

Deposed Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, throughout whose tenure Khaleda Zia became imprisoned, moreover conveyed her condolences to BNP’s Performing Chairperson Tarique Zia and said, her death is an “irreparable loss” for the political lifetime of Bangladesh.

PM Modi recalls assembly with Ms. Zia in 2015

“Because the first lady Prime Minister of Bangladesh, her crucial contributions in opposition to the pattern of Bangladessh apart from India-Bangladesh relations will always be remembered,” said Prime Minister Modi, recollecting his assembly with Begum Zia in June 2015 when he visited Dhaka for the signing of the historic India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Settlement (LBA).

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“Our sincerest condolences to her family and the total of us of Bangladesh. Might per chance also honest the Almighty grant her family the fortitude to secure this tragic loss,” PM Modi said. Earlier the Bangladesh Nationalist Score collectively had launched that Ms. Zia passed away at 6 a.m., on Tuesday (December 30), urging every person to pray for the departed soul.  

“Professor Yunus stated that Begum Khaleda Zia became no longer merely the chief of a political event; she represented a crucial chapter within the history of Bangladesh. Pondering her contributions, her lengthy fight, and the deep public sentiment in opposition to her, the authorities declared her a Very, Very Vital Person of the Notify earlier this month,” a observation from the clicking soar of the Chief Adviser.

Mr. Yunus said Ms. Zia became accountable for bettering training for ladies folks within the nation that facilitated bettering the situation of ladies folks in Bangladesh. 

“In her political existence, she became seriously a success. She by no come misplaced an election. From 1991 to 2001, she became elected in five diversified parliamentary constituencies. She contested from three constituencies and won within the total three seats,” said Prof. Yunus who gave credit to Begum Zia for allowing structural changes in Bangladesh’s economy within the early 1990s.

The observation from Prof. Yunus, described Begum Zia as a “unfamiliar image of fight and resistance” for her plan throughout the 16-year lengthy tenure of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina when BNP boycotted the elections of 2014, 2018 and January 2024.

Ms. Zia’s final public appearance became on the Armed Forces Day November 21, 2025, an event she has been attending over the a long time, as the widow of light Navy Chief and President of Bangladesh Fashioned Ziaur Rahman.

This year alternatively she regarded on a wheelchair whereas assembly Prof. Yunus and Navy Chief Fashioned Waker-uz-Zaman.

She became admitted at the Evercare Sanatorium of Dhaka on November 23, following lung infection.Weak Prime Minister Khaleda Zia became launched from penitentiary hours after the autumn of the Sheikh Hasina authorities on August 5, 2024.

Nonetheless, Bangladesh Awami League shared the remarks of Ms. Hasina on the passing of Khaleda Zia, lengthy regarded as to be her rival.“Her contribution is huge as the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh and for the institution of democracy in Bangladesh. In her death the political lifetime of Bangladesh and the leadership of BNP has suffered an irreparable loss,” Hasina said in her condolence message.