Dhaka:Former lawmaker and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Commerce Affairs Secretary, Salah Uddin Ahmed, has passed away. He died at Evercare Hospital in the capital at 810 pm while undergoing treatment.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, his son Tanvir Ahmed, who is the member secretary of the BNP's Dhaka South city unit, announced the death of his father in a Facebook post.
Salah Uddin Ahmed's funeral prayer, namaz-e-janaza, is scheduled to be held after Zuhr prayers tomorrow at Lal Masjid in the Shyampur-Kadamtali area.
He had a long-standing involvement in BNP politics and was recognized as an influential leader in Shyampur-Kadamtali. Ahmed was elected as a member of parliament from Dhaka-4 in the parliamentary elections of 1991, 1996, and 2001. He also contested in the 2008 parliamentary election from the Dhaka-5 constituency and later received the BNP nomination for Dhaka-4 in the 2018 election.