Staff Reporter :
The dead body of BNP Standing Committee member and noted lawyer Moudud Ahmed will be brought back home from Singapore today (Thursday) evening.
“All necessary processes and formalities have been completed to bring back his body to the country from Singapore by a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines,” said Moudud’s Personal Assistant Mominur Rahman Sujon.
A flight of Biman carrying Moudud’s mortal remains is scheduled to leave Singapore for Dhaka at 3:50pm on Thursday, he said.
Upon arrival of the body, it will be taken to the mortuary of United Hospital.
Moudud’s first namaz-e-janaza will be held on the High Court premises at 10:00am on Friday, while the second one in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office at 11:00am.
Another janaza of the six-times MP may be held on the South Plaza of Parliament subject to the Speaker’s permission.
Later, his body will be taken to his village home in Noakhali’s Companiganj upazila.
He will be buried at his family graveyard after his final janaza at Bashurhat Government Mujib College after Asr prayers.
BNP will observe a mourning day on Thursday over the death of Moudud. Party Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi came up with the announcement at a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office on Wednesday.
He said their party will hoist black flag at its party offices across the country while their party flag will be kept at half-mast on the mourning day.
Moudud Ahmed died at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore, around 6:30pm on Tuesday at the age of 81.
