Amina Ahmed passes away

Language Movement veteran and former lawmaker Amina Ahmed passed away yesterday. She was 90.

Amina was the wife of late Prof Muzaffar Ahmed, an adviser to the Mujibnagar Government during the Liberation War in 1971 and president of a faction of the National Awami Party (NAP).

She breathed her last around 11:00am while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Dhaka. She was buried with state honours beside her husband’s grave at Elahabad village in Cumilla’s Debidwar upazila after Maghrib prayers, said Ismail Hossain, a senior member of the NAP central committee.

Amina left behind her only daughter, Ivy Rahman, now president of NAP, to mourn her demise.

She was a former president of NAP and also a presidium member of the party’s current executive committee.

Political parties, including NAP, the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), and Bangladesh Chhatra Union, as well as many individuals, expressed deep shock at her death and extended sympathy to the bereaved family.

Amina actively participated in the Language Movement of 1952 while she was a student at Eden College. She was a leader of Chhatra Union and served as vice-president of the Eden College Students’ Union.

She was elected a lawmaker in the reserved women’s seats in 2009 and 2014.