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Prof ANM Nazrul Islam, a freedom fighter and former lawmaker, has died at the age of 80, his family said.
Islam breathed his last at his home in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur around 8:30 am on Tuesday, said his younger brother ARM Jowaherul Islam, a retired colonel.
Prof Islam had been suffering from old-age complications for a long time, reports bdnews24.com.
An organiser of the Liberation War, Islam was elected an Awami League MP from Fulbaria-Trishal constituency in the 1970 Pakistan general election. He was elected a lawmaker for a second time from Mymensingh-6 constituency (Fulbaria) in the first general election in 1973 after Bangladesh’s independence.
Islam was also a vice-president of the Awami League’s Mymensingh wing and a member of the party’s central executive committee in the 1970s.
He had worked as a special aide to Syed Nazrul Islam, the acting president of Bangladesh, during the Liberation War.
Islam will be buried in his ancestral home in Mymensingh’s Fulbaria. He is survived by his wife and a son.