NCP Convener Nahid Islam Arrives in London on Week-Long UK Tour, With Cambridge Address and Parliamentary Committee Meeting Planned

National Citizens' Party (NCP) convener and opposition chief whip Nahid Islam has arrived in the United Kingdom on a week-long tour. He reached the airport in London aboard an Emirates Airlines flight at 12:10 a.m. Bangladesh time.

Earlier, Nahid Islam had left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka for London at 9 a.m. Bangladesh time on Friday. Travelling with him is the party's joint member secretary for international relations, Alauddin Mohammad.

At the London airport, leaders of the NCP Diaspora Alliance's UK branch, along with expatriate Bangladeshis, welcomed him.

According to the NCP, during the tour Nahid Islam will meet the International Development Committee at the House of Commons in the British Parliament. He is also scheduled to meet the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and Human Rights Watch.

The party says those discussions will focus on Bangladesh's democratic journey after the July mass uprising, and on the need for, and the challenges of, sustainable institutional reform to protect human rights.

During the tour, Nahid Islam will address teachers and students at the University of Cambridge. There he will present the experience and events of the July uprising and discuss the new chapter that began in Bangladesh from July 2024.

In addition, a civic reception will be held for Nahid Islam on November 16 at the initiative of the British-Bangladeshi community.

He is scheduled to return home on November 21.