Online Desk :
Former state minister for religious affairs Mufti Muhammad Wakkas has passed away. He was 73.
He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at a hospital on Babar road in the capital 4:45am on Wednesday.
Mawlana Abdul Malek Chowdhury, Joint Secretary General of Jomiyot e Ulama e Islam, confirmed the death.
Wakkas will be buried at Manirampur in Jashore after Maghrib prayer, said Malek Chowdhury.
He was elected to parliament from Jessore-5 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1986 and 1988. He served as the state minister of religious affairs in the Hussain Mohammad Ershad Cabinet. He was elected to parliament from Jessore-5 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. He was a member of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh.
