AL MP Mozammel Hossain dies

Ruling Bangladesh Awami League MP from Bagerhat-4 constituency Mozammel Hossain passed away at a hospital in the capital early Friday due to old age complications, reports UNB.

He was 80.

The Awami League leader breathed his last around 12:45am at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), said his son Mahmud Hossain, a professor at Khulna University.

He left behind his son and a host of relatives to mourn his death.

Mozammel, also the district unit AL president, was elected MP from Bagerhat-1 and Bagerhat-4 constituencies in 1991, 1996, 2008, 2014 and 2018.

He had been serving as the president of district unit Awami League since 1984.

Born on 1 August 1940, the senior Awami League leader was the former state minister of women and children affairs ministry.

A namaz-e-janaza of Mozammel was held at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in the morning. He will be taken to Bagerhat.

Sheikh Kamruzzaman Tuku, general secretary of district unit Awami League, said the body of Mozammel will be kept in front of the district unit AL office at Rail Road from 12:00pm to 1:00pm so that people can pay tributes.

Around 2:00pm, another namaz-e-janaza of Mozammel will be held at Sheikh Helal Uddin Stadium.

He will be buried at the family graveyard following a namaz-e-janaza at Kochubunia High School ground in Morelganj upazila in Bagerhat.

Meanwhile, president Abdul Hamid, prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Jatiya Sangsad speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury expressed deep shock at the death of the AL leader.