Syed Ashraf to be buried on Sunday

Staff Correspondent:  Public Administration Minister and former Awami League (AL) General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam will be laid to eternal rest at Banani graveyard in Dhaka at 4.30pm on Sunday.

His body will be flown to Dhaka around 6.00pm on Saturday by a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.

After receiving the body by his political colleagues and relatives at the airport, it will be taken to his official residence on Bailey road at 7.00pm. Later, the body will be kept at the mortuary of Combined Military Hospital (CMH) at 9pm.

On Sunday, the veteran politician’s first namaj-e-janaza will be held on the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban’s south plaza at 10.30am. Guard of honor will be given to him there.

On that day, his body will be taken to Kishoreganj, from where the veteran Awami League leader was elected member of parliament (MP) five times.

There his second namaj-e-janaza will be held at old stadium ground in the district town at 12.00 noon.

Third namaj-e-janaza will be held at Mymensingh Anjuman Eidgah ground at 2.00pm.

He died at a hospital in Bangkok at the age of 68 on 03 January 2019.

He had been suffering from lung cancer for a long time. He is survived by a daughter to mourn his death.


risingbd/Dhaka/Jan 5, 2019/Asad/Mukul