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Nur-e-Alam Siddique no more

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Nur-e-Alam Siddique, one of the organizers of the Liberation War and former member of parliament from Jhenaidah-2 constituency, has passed away on Wednesday. He was 82.

The former lawmaker breathed his last at 4:37am while undergoing treatment at United Hospital in the city, said Aniket Rajesh, press secretary of Nur-e- Alam Siddique.

It is set to take his body to Jhenaidah by a helicopter at 10am, he added.

His first Namaj-e-Janaza will be held in Jhenaidah while another Namaj-e-Janaza will be held at Gulshan central mosque after Asr prayers.

The politician will be buried in Savar, near the mosque, constructed by his fund, said Aniket Rajesh.

Siddique, former Convener of the Chattra League Foundation, served as the president of the Bangladesh Chattra League during 1970-1972.

In all political movements, such as the Six-Point Movement and the Language Movement, he played a dynamic part.

After running in the 1973 first-ever national parliamentary elections as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate from the Jashore-2 seat, Siddique was also chosen as a member of parliament.

The veteran of the Liberation War ran successfully for the ruling Awami League in the seventh and eighth national parliamentary elections, which were conducted in 1996 and 2001.

Nur-e-Alam Siddique was born on May 1940 in the Jhenaidah area.