Former minister Shahjahan Kamal no more

Former minister and Lakshmipur-3 (Sadar) MP AKM Shahjahan Kamal has died. He was 74.

The MP breathed his last at the capital's Evercare Hospital at around 3:30am on Saturday, according to his family.

Half an hour earlier. Brahmanbaria-2 (Sarail and Ashuganj) MP and former state minister Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan also passed away at the same hospital.

Shahjahan Kamal's first Namaz-e-Janaza will be held at the south plaza of the parliament at 11am on Saturday.

He will be laid to rest at the family graveyard after a second Janaza followed by Asr prayer at Laharkandi union in Sadar upazila of Lakshmipur.

Shahjahan Kamal, a heroic freedom fighter and former president of the district unit of Awami League, was elected from the Lakshmipur-3 constituency in the 2014 and 2018 elections with the boat symbol.

He served as the Aviation and Tourism Minister for around one year after winning the 2018 election.

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