DHAKA, Aug 24, 2019 (BSS) – The first namaz-e-janaza of Bangladesh
National Awami Party-NAP (Muzaffar) President Professor Muzaffar Ahmed was
held at South Plaza of Jatiya Sangsad at 11 am today.
Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges
Minister Obaidul Quader, Science and Technology Minister Architect Yeafes
Osman, State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmood Chowdhury, Deputy Minister
for Water Resources AKM Enamul Haque Shamim, Whip Atiqur Rahman Atik, ,
chairman of parliamentary standing committee on Law, Justice and
Parliamentary Affairs Abdul Matin Khasru, chairman of parliamentary standing
committee on Science and Technology AFM Rahul Haque, chairman of
parliamentary standing committee on Public Enterprises ASM Feroz, joint
secretaries of AL Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif, MP, and Jahangir Kabir Nanak, office
secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap, MP, president of Workers Party Rashed Khan
Menon, MP, president of Communist Party Mujahidul Islam Selim, general
secretary of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal Shirin Akhter, MP, party leaders and
other dignitaries joined the namaj-e-zanaja.
A munajat was offered on the occasion, seeking eternal peace of the
departed soul of Prof Muzaffar, where Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Speaker
DR Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, ministers, parliament members and leaders of
different political parties joined the munajat.
Later, the Prime Minister and the Speaker paid rich tributes to one of the
political luminaries of the country Prof Muzaffar Ahmed, also a member of the
advisory council of the Mujibnagar government that led Bangladesh’s
Liberation War in 1971.
They paid the homage by placing a wreath on his coffin draped with the
red-green national flag.
After laying the wreath, the premier stood in solemn silence for some time
as a mark of profound respect to the memory of Prof Muzaffar.