Staff Reporter :
The Deputy Leader of the Parliament and the Presidium Member of the ruling Awami League, Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, was laid to rest with full state honour at Banani Graveyard in Dhaka on Monday.
She was buried in the grave at about 6.15pm.
The veteran politician and Faridpur-2 MP, Sajeda Chowdhury, passed away at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka on Sunday night around 11:40pm at the age of 87.
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have deep shock at the death of deputy leader of the Parliament,
Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury. In separate messages, they prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family.
Her first namaz-e-janaza was held in Nagarkanda upazila of Faridpur.
The second namaz-e-janaza of Sajeda Chowdhury was held at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque after Asr prayers on Monday.
Earlier, Sajeda Chowdhury’s body was taken to the Central Shaheed Minar at around 3:00pm on Monday to allow the people to have the last glimpse of this veteran politician and one of the organisers of the country’s Liberation War.
Sayeda Sajeda Chowdhury was born on May 8 in 1935. The veteran politician joined the politics of AL in 1956. After the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on August 15, 1975, she played an important role in keeping the AL organised at a critical moment.
In 1976, Sajeda Chowdhury became the AL’s Acting General Secretary.
Later, she was the party’s full general secretary from 1986 to 1992. Before that, she was the general secretary of Mahila Awami League from 1969 to 1975.
