President Md Abdul Hamid attended a milad and doa mahfil arranged for the salvation of the departed soul of Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam.
The family of late Syed Ashraf and Ministry of Public Administration jointly organised the mahfil at the Officers’ Club at Bailey Road in Dhaka on Tuesday afternoon, reports BSS.
Cabinet members, lawmakers, senior politicians, judges, high civil and military officials, secretaries concerned to the President and Prime Minister’s Offices, family members of the deceased, leaders and workers of ruling Awami League and its associate bodies attended the programme.
A special munajat was offered on the occasion seeking eternal peace of the departed soul of Syed Ashraful Islam, also a valiant freedom fighter and ex-general secretary of Bangladesh Awami League.
Besides, prayers were offered seeking eternal peace of the departed souls of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and other martyrs of the August 15 carnage as well as the Liberation War martyrs.
Prayers were also offered wishing long life and good health of President Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as well as the success of the new cabinet that took oath yesterday.
Syed Ashraful, son of slain national leader Syed Nazrul Islam who was also acting president of the Mujibnagar Government in 1971, breathed his last at a Bangkok hospital in Thailand on January 3 at the age of 68.
