DHAKA, July 5, 2021 (BSS)- Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) head of media Ahsan Ahmed Amit, has been laid to eternal rest at the Azimpur graveyard in the city today.

After Amit’s first namaz-e-janaza at Bismillah Mosque at Gopibagh RK Mission road in the morning at 10 am, his body was taken for second namaz-e-janaza at Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) where people from all walks of sports arena came to pay him their last respects with flowers.

Despite the ongoing strict lockdown, many people at the sports arena attended Amit's janaza in a bid to give farewell to the beloved man.

BFF, Bangladesh Volleyball Federation, Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation (BTTF), Bangladesh Athletics Federation, Bangladesh Gymnastic Federation, different sports journalist organizations, different football organizers and sports journalists paid their last respect to Amit.

BFF general secretary Abu Nayeem Shohag, who attended Amit’s namaz-e-janaza, said he has many memories with Amit on the pitch and off the pitch surrounding the BNS, BFF Bhaban, different district stadiums outside Dhaka, different international competitions in home and abroad  and those memories are really not forgettable.

Shohag said it's an irreparable loss for them as Amit was a man by professionalism, dedicated and oriented towards sports and football and probably they would not be able to fulfill his emptiness so easily.

Veteran sports organizer Fazlur Rahman Babul, recalling many memories with Amit said: “I feel sorry for a young, hard-working, sports-oriented organizer who passed away prematurely…. my endless love for him and may the Almighty Allah grant him a place in heaven.”

Earlier, Amit's body reached his Gopibagh residence on Sunday last night from New Delhi through Benapole Border.    

Amit, a familiar face in the sports arena, passed  away while undergoing treatment at a hospital in New Delhi, India at the age of 43.

He left behind his father, only elder brother and host of well wishers to mourn his death.

He had been suffering from kidney complications for a few months and  had been hospitalized there for the past three months.

Amit, who is also an executive committee’s member of BTTF, had a successful kidney transplant on June 22 last. He was waiting to return home but died of a brain hemorrhage on June 30 last.