DHAKA, Dec 25, 2020 (BSS) – Tributes and condolences continue to pour in
for former State Minister for Textile and Jute and Awami League (AL) Central
Working Committee member AKM Jahangir Hossain.
Jahangir, 66, breathed his last yesterday while undergoing treatment at
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).
In separate messages of condolence, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM
Mozammel Haque, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab
Uddin, State Minister for Information Dr Md Murad Hassan and State Minister
for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Swapan Bhattacharjee
have expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of AKM Jahangir.
They prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep
sympathy to the bereaved family.
Jahangir was general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student
wing of Awami League, in the 80s. He became the state minister for textile
and jute ministry during the Awami League government tenure in 1996.