Dhaka, June 21 -- Former lawmaker from Lakshmipur-4 and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JaSaD-Inu) vice president Mosharraf Hossain has died.

He was 78.

He passed away at a private hospital in Dhaka around 1:30am on Sunday while undergoing treatment, said Mahbube Elahi Sani, a relative of Mosharraf and a professor at Lakshmipur Government College.

A freedom fighter, Mosharraf was elected MP from Lakshmipur-4 (Ramgati and Kamalnagar) as a candidate of the combined opposition in the 1988 fourth national election.

He was a central leader of the then undivided Chhatra League in the 1960s and served as vice-president of Dhaka University's Shahidullah Hall student union.

During the Liberation War, he was a zonal commander of the Mujib Bahini or B...