Chowdhury Kamal Ibn Yusuf fell asleep

Dhaka: BNP Vice President, Former Minister and Former Member of Parliament (MP) Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf was buried after Janaza at Rajendra College Maidan in Faridpur with the participation of millions of people.

He was buried next to the grave of his father Chowdhury Yusuf Ali Mohan Miah at Moyez Manzil in Kamalapur, Faridpur on Friday (December 11) after Jumma.

For the last time, people came from all over to pay their respects.

The body of Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf was brought from Moyez Manzil in a snow-covered vehicle on the Rajendra College grounds around 2:15 pm. At this time an emotional atmosphere was created there. Apart from Faridpur, people come from all over to participate in janaza. A janaza was held around 3 pm in the presence of Khatib from the Chawkbazar Jame Mosque and the director Mufti Maulana Kamruzzaman from Samsul Uloom Madrasa.

There was no place to keep sesame seeds at that time during the procession of people who came to participate in the funeral of the beloved leader. There were crowds of visitors from the Rajendra College grounds to the nearby Faridpur Sheikh Jamal Stadium.

Before the janaza, Chowdhury Nayab ibn Yusuf, the eldest daughter of the deceased, gave a short speech on behalf of the family. Also present were Hafeez Maulana Mohammad Hanzela, Bahadurpur Durbar Sharif representative in Shariatpur, Zahirul Haque Shahzada Mia, advisor to BNP President AK Azad, former FBCCI President Shama Obaid Islam Ringik, Deputy Secretary of the Faridpur divisional organizing committee of the committee BNP’s central executive. Islam Babul, Divisional Co-Organizing Secretary Selimuzzaman Selim, Sultana Ahmed, General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist Women’s Party, Member of the Central Executive Committee of BNP Syed Modarres Ali Isa, Professor ABM Sattar, District Jamaat Ameer Professor Abdut Tawab and Central Executive Committee Juba Dal Vice President Mahbubul Hasan Bhuiyan Pinku.
Hafez Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Imam of Sheikh Farid Jame Mosque read a written statement from Professor Abdus Samad, secretary of the Muslim mission in Faridpur.

The veteran BNP leader died at the capital’s Ever Care Hospital on Thursday (December 9) after contracting the corona virus. After his first janaza at the Azad Mosque in Gulshan after that day, party leaders, including the party’s general secretary, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, paid their last respects to him. The next day, Thursday, there were elections in Faridpur Township. Chowdhury Nayab Yusuf, the eldest daughter of the deceased, was the candidate for mayor of BNP in that election. Therefore, one day his body was kept in the cold room of the Dhaka Hospital.

When the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was formed in 1979 under the leadership of President Ziaur Rahman, Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf joined. He was elected a Member of Parliament in the 1989 national elections. In 1971, he became a minister in the government of Justice Abdus Sattar. He was re-elected in 1991 and became Minister of Health in Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s cabinet. Although he won the 1996 general election, his party lost to the BNP Awami League. He also won the 2001 elections and later became Minister of Food and Disaster Management. He lost his seat in the 2008 general elections. Until his death, he served as vice president of BNP.

Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf was born on April 23, 1940 into a Bengali Zamindar family from the Faridpur district. Kamal Yusuf’s father was Zamindar Chowdhury Moizuddin Vibhas. His father Yusuf Ali Chowdhury (Mohan Mia) was a prominent leader of the Muslim League during the British rule. His uncle Chowdhury Abdullah Zahiruddin (Lal Mia) was in the cabinet of President Ayub Khan’s government and another uncle, Enayet Hossain Chowdhury, was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.

** Former BNP Minister Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf no longer exists

Bangladesh time: 2041 hours, December 11, 2020
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