BNP pays homage to Mizanur Rahman Sinha

The BNP has mourned the loss of veteran leader Mizanur Rahman Sinha, with senior figures gathering at capital's Naya Paltan to pay their last respects, reports bdnews24.com.

Sinha's coffin, draped in the party flag, arrived at the party's central office at 10:00 am on Monday.

Vice-Chairman Asaduzzaman Ripon, Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Joint Secretaries General Habib Un Nabi Khan Sohel, Abdus Salam Azad, Voluntary Affairs Secretary Mir Sarafat Ali Sapu, and MPs Quamruzzaman Ratan and SM Jilani offered their tributes with flowers.

A Namaz-e-Janaza, or funeral prayer, was held in front of the office before the tributes, attended by Ripon, Rizvi, Sohel, and leaders and activists from BNP's central committee and affiliated organisations.

The family said a final funeral prayer would be held in Munshiganj's Louhajang, after which Sinha will be laid to rest in the family graveyard. Sinha died in the early hours of Friday at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital in Singapore while undergoing treatment. He was 83.