Former land minister and Pabna district Awami League president Shamsur Rahman Sherif passed away at a city hospital early Thursday. He was 80, reports UNB.
The five-time MP, also a freedom fighter, breathed his last at around 05:30 am at United Hospital, said Golam Faruk Prince, general secretary of the ruling party's Pabna unit.
He had been suffering from various ailments and was undergoing treatment at the ICU of the hospital for the last several days.
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina expressed deep shock at the death of the veteran politician.
They prayed for the eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family.
President Hamid said the Awami League lost an efficient organiser as well as a veteran politician. "The loss at his death is really irreparable to the political arena of Bangladesh," he said.
In her condolence message, the PM recalled that Shamsur Rahman served the country and the nation throughout his life as a soldier of the ideology of the greatest Bengali of all times and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
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