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Ministers, state ministers condole death of Laila Arjumand Banu
DHAKA, June 29, 2020 (BSS) – Condolences continue to pour in for Laila Arjumand Banu, wife of Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud, Agriculture Minister Md Abdur Razzaque, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Haque, Local Government Minister Md Tajul Islam, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, Planning Minister MA Mannan, Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, Textile and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder, Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi, Social Welfare Minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed, Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim, Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Shahab Uddin, Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing, Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, Railway Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan, Minister of Science and Technology Architect Yafes Osman and Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar expressed deep shock at her death.
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid, State Minister for Social Welfare Md Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru, State Minister for Labor and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian, State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Md Zakir Hossain, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam, State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Junaid Ahmed Palak, State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain, State Minister for Rural Development and Cooperatives Swapan Bhattacharya, State Minister for Water Resources Zahid Faruk, State Minister for Information Md Murad Hasan, Housing and Public Works Minister Sharif Ahmed, State Minister for Culture KM Khalid, State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Dr Md Enamur Rahman, State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Begum Fazilatun Nesa Indira and Deputy Minister for Water Resources AKM Enamul Haque Shamim also mourned her death.
They prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family members.
Laila Arjumand Banu died while undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) at around 7.45 am today.
She was 71.
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