Bangladesh's prominent Hindu politician and ruling Awami league's veteran lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta died on Sunday after prolonged illness. He was 72.
Sengupta, who played a significant role in framing the post-independent Bangladesh's first Constitution in 1972, breathed his last early this morning at a private hospital in Dhaka hours after he was put on life support system.
"He had been suffering from cancer for long which collapsed his central nervous system and made his lungs dysfunctional...He breathed his last at 4.29 am today," a hospital spokesman told reporters.
He is survived by his wife and a son. A former railways minister, Sengupta was a member of Awami league Advisory Council and chairman of parliamentary standing committee on law, justice and parliamentary affairs ministry.
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed their deep shock at his demise.