DHAKA, Sept 12, 2022 (BSS) - Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said the vacuum created at the death of veteran Awami League (AL) leader Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury would never be replenished.

“Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury was a very trusted colleague of AL President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. She remained in a large part of country's politics,” he told the journalists after the AL paid tribute to the body of Sajeda Chowdhury at the Central Shaheed Minar here this afternoon.

Quader, also the Road Transport and Bridges Minister said, the late AL leader was one of the organizers of the great Liberation War, independent struggle and the movement of self-governance.

Sajeda Chowdhury was beside the AL in every crisis after the killing of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, he said.

AL Presidium Members Sheikh Fazlul Karim Salim, Dr Md Abdur Razzaque, Jahangir Kabir Nanak and Abdur Rahman, its Joint General Secretaries Mahbubul Alam Hanif, Dr Dipu Moni and Dr Hasan Mahmud (also information and broadcasting minister), Organising Secretaries Ahmad Hossain, Advocate Afzal Hossain, SM Kamal Hossain and Mirza Azam, Publicity and Publication Secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap, Culture Affairs Secretary Asim Kumar Ukil, Labour Affairs Secretary Habibur Rahman Siraj and Science and Technology Affairs Secretary Abdus Sabur, were among others, present on the occasion.

Earlier, the first namaj-e-janaza of Sajeda Chowdhury was held on the premises of Mahendra Narayan Academy at Nagarkanda upazila in Faridpur.

Deputy Leader of the House and AL presidium member Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury died at the Dhaka CMH last night at the age of 87.