Pranab Mukherjee
Bangladesh parliament adopts condolence motion regarding Pranab Mukherjee
Dhaka/UNI: Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad on Sunday unanimously adopted a condolence motion expressing profound grief over the death of former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and other departed souls including two lawmakers of the present parliament.
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury moved the condolence motion and it was adopted in the house
following a brief discussion among the lawmakers.
Leader of the House and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also took part in the discussions regarding the condolence motion.
Participating in the discussion, the lawmakers dubbed the former Indian President as a ‘true friend’ of
Bangladesh and expressed their deep respect to him, late Mukherjee was the first Bengali president of India.
84 year old Mukherjee had served as the 13th President of India, breathed his last on August 31due to brain hemorrhage, he was also found to be COVID-19 positive and was undergoing treatment at the Sena Hospital in New Delhi.
The House also adopted the obituary motion over the death of two current lawmakers Advocate Shahara Khatun representing Dhaka-18 constituency and Israfil Alam representing Naogaon-6 constituency.
Advocate Shahara, the former Home and Post and Telecommunication Minister, died on July 9 while she was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Thailand at the age of over 77 years.
A 54-year old Alam died of deadly COVID-19 infection at a city hospital on July 27.
The parliament also expressed condolence over the deaths of several elite personalities in home and abroad including the casualties triggered by air-conditioner blast in the mosque in Narayanganj.
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