Zainul Haque Sikder to be buried tomorrow in Shariatpur

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DHAKA, Feb 13, 2021 (BSS) – Valiant freedom fighter and Sikdar Group chairman Zainul Haque Sikder will be laid to eternal rest tomorrow at his village home at Bhedarganj in Shariatpur.

His body will be taken to his ancestral home tomorrow as the body has been kept at ZH Sikder Women’s Medical College and Hospital in the city’s Gulshan area after his first Namaz-e-Janaza held on the hospital premises after juhr prayers today, family sources said.

Sikder will be laid to eternal rest with state honour and a guard of honour beside the grave of his mother after another Namaz-e-Janaza there.

Earlier, the body of Zainul Haque Sikder arrived in the city on Friday. A chartered aircraft carrying the body from Dubai landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport here around 5:15pm on the day.

From the airport, his body was taken to ZH Sikder Women’s Medical College and Hospital at Gulshan and then to his residence in Dhanmondi.

Zainul, also chairman of National Bank, breathed his last on Wednesday last at a hospital in the UAE at the age of 91.