Hasina Ahmed, wife of missing BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed, on Saturday again sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s intervention to get her husband back safely.

‘Law enforcers picked up my husband nearly two months back. We’re yet to find him out. I don’t want to know where he is and why he has been picked up. I again make a humble request to the Prime Minister to take steps to return my husband to me and my children,’ she said.

Hasina made the appeal when a BNP delegation, led by party joint secretary general M Shahjahan and international affairs secretary Asaduzzaman Ripon, went to her Gulshan residence to console her and her family members as Salahuddin has remained missing for 53 days.

BNP and Salauddin's family members have been claiming that law enforcers picked him up from a house at Uttara on the night of 10 March, an allegation denied by the law enforcers and the government.

The worried wife of the BNP leader submitted applications twice on 7 April and 19 March to the Prime Minister’s office seeking Sheikh Hasina’s directives to the law enforcers to return her husband.

In an emotion-choked voice, Hasina said, ‘I don’t want to look backward. I won’t ask why my husband has been taken up. I only want to get him back safely. We’re mentally devastated and passing a tough time following his disappearance.’

Talking to reporters, Asaduzzaman Ripon said it is the responsibility of the government to ensure security of every citizen. ‘It’s hard to believe that joint general secretary of a party has remained missing for 53 days and the government could find him out.’

He demanded the government take proper step to immediately return Salahuddin to his family.