DHAKA, Feb 6, 2023 (BSS) - The first namaz-e-janaza of freedom fighter, lawmaker and Chattogram south district Awami League (AL) president Moslem Uddin Ahmed was held in front of the AL central party office at the city's Bangabandhu Avenue at 11.00am today.

After the janaza prayer, Awami League paid tribute to Moslem Uddin. 

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader, Presidium member Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud, State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury, AL Organizing Secretary Sujit Roy Nandi, Relief and Social Welfare Secretary Aminul Islam Amin, Office Secretary Barrister Biplab Barua and others were present at that time.

Moslem Uddin Ahmed passed away at a hospital in the capital early today at the age of 75.

"He breathed his last at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka around 12:30 am," his nephew Lokman Chowdhury told BSS. 

The elderly AL politician had been suffering from cancer and other diseases for the last two years, he said.

Ahmed is survived by wife, four daughters, a host of relatives, friends, well-wishers and political fellows.