Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh Secretary General Allama Nur Hossain Kasemi has passed away.
He breathed his last at capital Dhaka's United Hospital while undergoing treatment.
The party's central publicity secretary Zakaria Noman Faizi confirmed the matter to Jago News.
Nur Hossain Kasemi was admitted to the hospital with cold and breathing problem on December 1.
On November 15, he was made general secretary of Hefazat-e-Islam in the new committee.
Earlier on September 18, the Qawmi-madrasa based organization's first Ameer and supreme leader Allama Shafi died.