Former MP Nurul Islam Khan dies

Jatiya Janata Party Chairman and former lawmaker Nurul Islam Khan has passed away. 

He breathed his last at 12:50pm on Tuesday while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Sylhet.

Aklis Ahmed Chowdhury, Sylhet Divisional Co-coordinator of the party, confirmed the death to Jago News. 

He said, Nurul will be buried at his family graveyard at Sreedharpur village in Bishwanath municipality of Sylhet at 8:30pm after three namaz-e-janaza.

Nurul won the first national parliamentary election of the country as Awami League candidate from Sylhet-7 constituency in 1973. 

Later, he was defeated in the parliamentary election from Sylhet-2 constituency in 1991 and 1996 as Jatiya Janata Party candidate.  

Nurul, also a freedom fighter, joined Language Movement in 1952.