Barrister Nazmul Huda dies aged 80

Former minister and BNP leader Barrister Nazmul Huda has died.

He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Square Hospital at 10:25pm on Sunday, confirmed  BNP media cell member Shayrul Kabir Khan.

Nazmul Huda was suffering from various diseases for many days. 

His aide Shamim Ahsan said a Namaz-e-Janaza will be held for Huda at Saat Masjid Road mosque in Dhanmondi near his home on Monday morning. Huda will be buried at his village in Dohar after another Janaza in the afternoon.

He left behind his wife Sigma Huda, two daughters Antora Salima Huda and Srabonti Ameena Huda and a host of well-wishers and friends.

Born in 1943, Huda was elected lawmaker from Dhaka-1 constituency. He served as information minister during 1991-1996 and then communications minister during 2001-2006. He was elected four times from the constituency with BNP ticket.

Huda, a barrister by training, was among the founding members of the party formed by Ziaur Rahman, who put Huda into its policymaking body, the National Standing Committee.

After Khaleda Zia took charge, she kept Huda in the Standing Committee and made him information minister when the party formed the government in 1991, and then the communications minister during their 2001-2006 tenure.

Huda was once expelled and then taken back into the party fold.

He resigned from the BNP and formed a new party named BNF in 2012. The new party also expelled him and won a seat in the 2014 national election.

Huda formed the Trinamool BNP in November 2015 after he failed to join the ruling Awami League-led coalition by creating two more parties.