PM attends Sinha's janaza

Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Sunday paid his last respects to former State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mizanur Rahman Sinha.

The Prime Minister placed a wreath at the coffin of the deceased at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban around 11:30am.

Speaker Hafiz Uddin Ahmad, BNP Secretary General, and Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives (LGRD) Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Deputy Speaker Kayser Kamal, Chief Whip Nurul Islam Moni and Secretary of the Parliament Secretariat Md Golam Sorwar Bhuiyan also paid tribute to him by placing wreaths at the coffin.

Before that, the Speaker, the LGRD Minister and the Chief Whip delivered reminiscence speeches in memory of the late BNP leader.

Sinha's son Tanvir Sinha expressed gratitude to the Prime Minister and the Speaker for honouring his father at the state level.

Earlier, the body of Mizanur Rahman Sinha, also a former lawmaker, was brought to the South Plaza of Parliament and kept on a stage draped in black cloth.

His namaz-e-janaza was held there before the tribute ceremony. The janaza was led by Abu Raihan, senior pesh imam of the parliament mosque.    �"UNB