SA Khaleque, a former member of parliament and vice-president of the Dhaka city unit of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, died Sunday afternoon at a Dhaka hospital.
SA Khaleque, also a former deputy mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation, breathed his last at about 3:30pm at United Hospital, said BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.
He said that the former lawmaker had long been suffering from various old-age complications. SA Khaleque was admitted to the United Hospital on Wednesday as his health condition deteriorated. He was placed on a ventilator Saturday night as his condition turned critical.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir visited Khaleque at the hospital Sunday noon, just over three hours before his death.
鈥楰haleque鈥檚 first janaza will be held in front of the BNP鈥檚 Nayapaltan central office at 12:00pm Monday. Second Janaza will be held at 2:00pm at Mirpur Bangla College, and he will be laid to rest at his family graveyard near Gabtali Mirpur Shahi Mosque,鈥� Sayrul said.
SA Khaleque joined the BNP through its founder Ziaur Rahman and was first elected MP in the 1979 parliamentary elections from the Dhaka-14 constituency. He was later elected as an MP from Dhaka-11 in the 1986 and 1988 elections with the ticket of the Jatiya Party.
Khaleque returned to BNP before the 1996 national elections, securing the Dhaka-11 seat again with its ticket. His final term in Parliament came in 2001 when he was re-elected as a BNP candidate from the same constituency.
