DHAKA: President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed profound shock at the death of veteran Awami League leader also former mayor of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury. 

In separate messages, the president and the premier prayed for the salvation of the departed soul and expressed deep condolence with the members of the bereaved family.

Mohiuddin’s death has created a vacuum in the political sphere which is irreplaceable, they stated in the messages.

ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury breathed his last at Max Hospital in Chittagong’s Mehedibag, at around 3:00am Friday (December 15). He was 74.

He was suffering from heart and kidney complications.

Mohiuddin served as CCC Mayor for almost 17 years. He was fondly called as ‘Chottola Bir’ which means the hero of Chittagong. 

Born in Dec 1, 1944 in Chittagong’s Raozan upazila, Mohiuddin was elected mayor for the first time in 1994. Later, he assumed in the office for more two regimes.

He also served as the president of Chittagong metropolitan unit of Awami League.

BDST: 1020 HRS, DEC 15, 2017
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