Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Saturday paid rich tributes to former finance minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, saying the country lost a learned, prudent and polite person at his demise who contributed a lot to the economic sector, reports BSS.
The minister told the reporters after paying homage by placing wreath on the coffin of veteran Awami League (AL) politician Muhith in front of Central Shaheed Minar in the capital.
Hasan said the former finance minister of the government was fully a gentleman.
He had extended his all-out cooperation to the prime minister in graduating Bangladesh to a developing country from the least developed one and in its progress facing all obstacles, he added.
He said Muhith, in his long exchequered career, delivered the national budget for a record 12 times.
His death is an irreparable loss to the country, said Hasan, also Awami League joint general secretary.
The minister prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family.
Muhith breathed his last at 12:56 am today at the United Hospital in Dhaka. He was 88.