Jatiya Party Secretary General and former lawmaker Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu died today at a Dhaka hospital. He was 67.
Bablu breathed his last while undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at Bangladesh Specialized Hospital around 9:12am, JP leaders said.
The JP leader is survived by his wife, a son and a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn his demise.
The body will be kept at Jatiya Party's central office at Kakrail from 1pm to 3pm for people to pay respect, according to a press release issued by Jatiya Party.
His namaz-e-janaza will be held after Esha prayers at Azad Mosque in Gulshan. Later, he will be buried in Martyred Intellectual Graveyard at Mirpur, the release added.
Bablu was elected MP from Chattogram-9 in 2014.
He served as the cabinet minister for the Ministry of Power Energy and Mineral resources during late president HM Ershad's regime in 1980s.
Bablu was appointed as an advisor to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in November 2013.
He was born in 1954 in Chattogram.
Bablu completed his Higher Secondary School Certificate from Notre Dame College, Dhaka. He had Bachelors in Arts and Master's degree from Dhaka University in English Literature, and a Bachelor of Laws from the same institution.
Active in student politics since young age, Bablu served as the general secretary of the English Departmental Association of Dhaka University from 1974 to 1975. From 1979 to 1983, Bablu was a member of the Dhaka University Senate and from 1981 to 1983, he was the general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League. During that time, he also served Dhaka University Central Students Union (DUCSU) as its general secretary.
He was with among other few leaders who played vital role to convince Ershad to participate in the national election in 2014 where more than half of the MPs were elected unopposed.
In 2020, JP removed Moshiur Rahman Ranga from the post of the party's secretary general and replaced him with Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu.
His first wife Farida Sarkar died in 2005 from cancer. They had a son. In April 2017, Bablu married Dr. Mehe Zebunnesa Rahman, a relative of HM Ershad.
