Deputy Speaker’s janaza held at National Eidgah

The first namaz-e-janaza of Deputy Speaker of the Parliament Advocate Md Fazle Rabbi Miah was held on the National Eidgah premises in the capital Dhaka on Monday morning.

The first namaz-e-janaza of Deputy Speaker of the Parliament Advocate Md Fazle Rabbi Miah was held on the National Eidgah premises in the capital Dhaka on Monday morning.
The namaz-e-janaza was held around 10.00am. Earlier the heroic freedom fighter was given a guard of honor.
Another janaza will be held in Gaibandha at 3.00pm. The 76-year-old valiant freedom fighter will be laid to eternal rest at his family graveyard at Gatia village under Shaghata upazila of the district.
A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying his body landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city around 8.50am on Monday.
A lawmaker from Gaibandha-5, Advocate Fazle Rabbi breathed his last on July 22 at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York.
He was survived by three daughters and a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death. His wife Anwara Rabbi passed away in May 2020.
He was born on April 15, 1946 at Gatia village under Saghata upazila in Gaibandha, and was the founding secretary of Gaibandha Law College from 1979-86.
He was elected to parliament as an Awami League candidate for the seventh time from the Gaibandha-5 seat (Phulchhari-Saghata) in the 2018 national polls.
The valiant freedom fighter fought against the Pakistan Army in Sector 11 during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
Rabbi, also Parliament Member of Gaibandha-5 constituency, was suffering from incurable cancer. He was under treatment in New York for 9 months.
Rabbi also served as the State Minister of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Whip of the National Parliament, Chairman of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.