BNP Vice-Chairman Shah Moazzem Hossain passed away on Wednesday.
He was 83.
Shah Moazzem breathed his last around 9:30 pm at his Gulshan residence in the capital.
Moazzem Hossain was active in student politics. He served as the whip of the 1972 Bangladesh Awami League government headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He was also a minister in the cabinet of Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad.
He was elected to Parliament from Rangpur-6 as a Jatiya Party candidate in a by-election in September 1991.
Moazzem joined Jatiya Party led by Hussain Mohammad Ershad but was removed from the party in 1992. He, later, joined the BNP.
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