Opposition BNP on Sunday paid homage to former MP KM Hemayet Ullah Auranga who along with five people was killed in a road accident at Louhajang upazila in Munshiganj on Saturday.
After a namaj-e-janaza in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, standing committee member Mirza Abbas, senior vice chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka and joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, on behalf of their party chairperson, placed wreaths on the coffin of the former MP.
They also draped Auranga’s coffin with the national and party flags as a mark of last respect to him.
A special munajat was also offered seeking divine blessings for salvation of the departed soul.
Auranga, also a freedom fighter, met the tragic end of his life with five others as a jeep they were travelling in collided head-on with a bus on Saturday afternoon.
The other deceased were identified as Jubo Dal joint general secretary SM Nuruzzaman, 45, Swechchhasebak Dal assistant office secretary Munshi Jamal Uddin, 50, BNP leader Mohammad Yeasin Halder, 45, Shariatpur district Swechchhasebak Dal leader Hazrat Ali, 45 and BNP leader Nuruddin Sheikh, 45.
Earlier, a janza for Auranga, SM Nuruzzaman and Munshi Jamal Uddin was held in front of the BNP’s central office around 1pm which was attended by a large number of party leaders and activists.
Two separate janazas’ – the first one in front of Kanthalbagan Mosque and the second at the South Plaza of parliament– for Aurang were also held.
Auranga, 60, also a BNP executive committee member, was elected MP from the constituency twice -– first in 1991 on Awami League ticket and in 2001 as an independent candidate.
He contested the 2008 national election with a BNP ticket and lost to Awami League candidate Abdur Razzak.
Source: UNBConnect
