Barrister Mainul Hosein no more

Barrister Mainul Hosein, former adviser to a caretaker government and chairman of the editorial board of The New Nation, passed away on Saturday. He was 83.  

Hosein, also the publisher of the daily newspaper The New Nation, breathed his last at the Evercare Hospital Dhaka around 6 pm, according to family sources.

His first namaz-e-janaza will be held at Baridhara Jame Mosque at 10:30 am on Sunday. He will be buried at Azimpur graveyard following his second namaz-e-janaza at Supreme Court compound after Johr prayer.

Barrister Mainul Hosein, born in January in 1940, served as the law, information, and land advisor to the military-backed Caretaker Government of Bangladesh from January 2007 to January 2008.

Hosein was born to the famous journalist and politician, Tofazzal Hossain Manik Mia. H, lege took charge a editor of the Daily Ittefaq after his father, legendary editor, Tofazzal Hossain Manik Mia died in 1969.  A renowned lawyer of the Supreme court he left the position in favour of a professional journalist and served as the chairman of the editorial board of the Ittefaq for a long time.

He is known for resigning from Parliament along with General MAG Osmani instead of joining the BAKSAL in 1975. since then he has been known as outspoken person on issues of politics and democracy. He was imprisoned September 2019 for defamation as he critically responded to a provocative question in an interview.

For more than a year he remained under treatment for cancer in his abdomen.