Ex deputy speaker Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui dies
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Senior Correspondent: Former deputy speaker of Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad and BNP Chairperson's adviser Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui passed away at a city hospital at the age of 71.
He breathed his last around 12:15pm on Sunday at United Hospital in the capital.
BNP chairperson’s media wing member Sairul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter.
Sairul Kabir Khan said that Siddiqui was taken to the hospital on Saturday morning after he felt chest pain.
The first namaz-e-janaza of Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui will be held in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office after Asr prayers on Sunday while the second one will be held at South Plaza of Jatiya Sangsad at 10:00am on Monday.
Later, he will be buried at his family graveyard in Noagaon after third Namaz-e-Janaza.
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