National Citizen Party (NCP) Convener and Opposition Chief Whip Nahid Islam has arrived in the United Kingdom on a week-long visit.
He reached London by an Emirates Airlines flight, where leaders of the NCP Diaspora Alliance's UK chapter and expatriate Bangladeshis welcomed him at the airport.
During the visit, Nahid is scheduled to meet the UK Parliament's International Development Committee, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and Human Rights Watch.
He is also expected to address teachers and students at the University of Cambridge, discussing the July 2024 uprising and Bangladesh's post-uprising political developments.
A civic reception will be organised for him by the British-Bangladeshi community on November 16. He is scheduled to return home on November 21.
-AJM