Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader MA Matin passed away on Tuesday morning while under treatment in Dhaka.
He was 87.
MA Matin was a member of BNP’s national executive committee and former member of parliament. He was elected MP four times from the Chandpur-5 (Hajiganj-Shahrasti) constituency.
Matin had also been head of the parliamentary standing committee for the water resources ministry.
Member of BNP chairperson’s media wing, Shamsuddin Didar, said that MA Matin passed away at 9:00 in the morning at a hospital in Uttara in the capital city. He had suffered from a brain stroke at home a week ago and was admitted to hospital where he was kept in the coronary care unit (CCU).
MA Matin’s body was taken to Hajiganj upazila of Chandpur where he was laid to rest in his family graveyard.
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