Body of Aminul Haque Badsha arrives today
Sunday, 15 February 2015
The body of journalist Aminul Haque Badsha, former Press Secretary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman arrives in the city from London today (Sunday), reports BSS.
A Bangladesh Biman flight carrying the body of Badsha is scheduled to arrive at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 12:00 noon, said the deceased's younger brother Rashidul Haque Naba Saturday.
After completing airport formalities, the body would be kept at Central Shaheed Minar from 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm so that people from all walks of life could pay their last respect to Badsha, one of the key organisers of 'Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra'.
Later, the body would be brought to the Baitul Mukarram Mosque where his Namaj-e-Janaza would be held after Asr prayers.
The body of Badsha would be kept at Jatiya Press Club from 10.00 am to 12:00 noon on Monday from where the body would be taken to his ancestral home in Kushtia for burial in the afternoon.
A veteran journalist Aminul Haque Badsha died of prolonged illness at London's Orpington Hospital on February 10 at the age of 73.