Social Welfare Minister Syed Mohsin Ali died of a cardiac arrest yesterday morning at a hospital in Singapore. He was 67.
Acting secretary of the ministry Rupon Kanti Sheel confirmed the news: “He breathed his last in Singapore at 8.59 am (Bangladesh time),” the BSS reported.
A veteran freedom fighter, Syed Mohsin Ali left his wife, three daughters, relatives, party men and well-wishers to mourn his death.
He was an elected lawmaker from Habiganj-3 constituency.
He had been suffering from pneumonia and some other diseases and went to Singapore recently for treatment there.
At the death of Minister Mohsin Ali, President Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her cabinet colleagues, Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Begum Raushan Ershad, among others, have expressed profound shock.
