Awami League presidium member and former general secretary of the party Syed Ashraful Islam has passed away at Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok. He was 67.
Doctors at the hospital declared Syed Ashraful dead around 9:45pm (BST), said Tofazzal Hosain, the AL leader’s personal secretary.
“He is suffering from fourth stage cancer. He even cannot recognise anyone,” Major Gen (retd) Syed Shafayetul Islam, younger brother of the ailing AL leader said on November 4.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister and AL president Sheikh Hasina has expressed a deep shock over his death, said the press wing of the Prime Minister’s Office.
BNP senior leaders also expressed their condolences.
On September 17, the parliament approved 90 days' leave for ailing Ashraful Islam.
Chief Whip ASM Feroz, on behalf of Syed Ashraf, also a lawmaker, placed an application before Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury to grant the leave for the next 90 consecutive House sittings from September 18.
The Speaker moved it to parliament and read out the application and the House granted the leave by voice vote.
According to the application, Syed Ashraf is now undergoing treatment at the Critical Care Medicine Unit of Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok.
Ashraful was re-eected from Kishoreganj-1 constituency in the 11 parliamentary election which was held on December 30, 2018.
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