Mizanur Rahman Sinha no more

Mizanur Rahman Sinha, managing director of ACME Laboratories Limited and a former state minister for health, has died in Singapore while undergoing treatment. He was 83.

He passed away at 2am on Saturday, Munshiganj-2 constituency MP Abdus Salam Azad said.

"He had been hospitalised for a long time," Azad said, adding that arrangements to bring the body back to Bangladesh are under way and the media would be informed in due course.

His daughter and ACME Deputy Managing Director Tasneem Sinha also broke the news on Facebook.

Sinha had been in line for the BNP nomination in the national election from the Munshiganj-2 (Louhajang-Tongibari) seat, but illness forced him out of the race.

BNP Joint Secretary General Azad stepped in as the replacement candidate.

A two-time BNP MP, Sinha first won the Munshiganj seat in the seventh parliamentary polls in 1996 and held it again in the eighth in 2001.    �"bdnews24