Shawdesh desk:

Ruling Awami League lawmaker and Chattogram south district unit AL president Moslem Uddin Ahmed passed away at a private hospital in Dhaka on early Monday. He was 74.

Awami League’s relief and social welfare affairs secretary Aminul Islam told New Age that Moslem Uddin Ahmed,also a veteran freedom fighter, breathed his last due to cancer at about 12:40am on Monday at the Evercare Hospital in Dhaka.

Prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of Moslem Uddin.

His first namaz-e-janaza will be held on Awami League central office premises at Bangabandhu Avenue at 11:00am on Monday, Biplob Barua, office secretary of Awami League, said.

His second namaz-e-janaza will be held on Gomdandia Pilot High School premises in Chattogram after Asr prayers on Monday and the third namaz-e-janaza will be held on Jamiatul Falah Mosque on Tuesday 11:00am, he said.

Moslem Uddin Ahmed was elected as a member of parliament from Chattogram-8 (Boalkhali-Chandgoan-Panchlaish) constituency as an Awami League nominated candidate in the vacant seat on January 13, 2020.

The parliamentary seat fell vacant after the death of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal leader Moinuddin Khan Badal .

In a message of condolence, she said, ‘…Bangladesh Awami League has lost a dedicated leader with the demise of Moslem Uddin.’

Recalling his contribution to the AL, the PM said that Moslem Uddin was elected vice-president of the Government Commerce College in 1969 and joined the Liberation War at the directive of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

He performed responsibilities of different posts of the Chattogram City and District Chhatra League from 1970 to 1982, she said.

The AL president said that Moslem Uddin had shouldered the responsibility of Chattogram South City AL as its general secretary from 2005 to 2013 and as President from 2013 till date.

She prayed for the eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family.

In a separate condolence message, Jatiya Sangsad speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of Moslem Uddin Ahmed.