Shah Muhammad Abul Hussain, former state minister for finance and planning and BNP leader, died at a hospital on Monday. He was 85.
Abul Hussain, also a former vice president of Barisal North unit BNP, breathed his last at Evercare Hospital at 11am, said BNP's media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan.
The BNP leader is survived by his wife, one son and one daughter.
He will be buried at Banani Graveyard following a namaz-e-janaza at Gulshan Azad Mosque after Maghrib prayer.