Those we lost in 2022
Ex-finance minister AMA Muhith
December 31, 2022 00:00:00
Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, the former finance minister who ushered Bangladesh into the era of trillion-taka budget and whose policies helped shape its economy to its current status, has died under hospital care in Dhaka. He was 88.
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He breathed his last at United Hospital at 12:56am on Saturday, the foreign ministry said in a statement. His younger brother AK Abdul Momen is foreign minister.
After serving Sheikh Hasina's cabinet from 2009 to 2018 - financing the Padma Bridge project from domestic sources after Hasina went toe-to-toe with the World Bank which cancelled $1.2 billion credit being another highlight of his - and delivering the maximum number of 10 national budgets in a row, Muhith signed off from politics in 2019.