Syed Ashraf’s body arrives home

Staff Correspondent: The body of Awami League Presidium member and Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam has arrived home on Saturday evening.

A Biman Bangladesh flight carrying his body reached Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 6:05pm.

A team led by party’s General Secretary Obaidul Quader was at the airport to receive the body.

After receiving the body, 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 9:00pm.

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 January 3, 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/Hasan/AI