Dhaka, Oct. 13 -- time MP and BNP Commerce Affairs Secretary Salahuddin Ahmed died at a hospital in the capital on Tuesday night. He was 80.

He breathed his last at Evercare Hospital Dhaka at 8:10pm, his son Tanvir Ahmed Robin, member secretary of Dhaka South City BNP, told UNB.

Robin said his father's namaz-e-janaza will be held after Zohr prayers at Lal Mosque in Shyampur-Kadamtali on Wednesday. He urged all to pray for the salvation of his father's departed soul.

Salahuddin Ahmed was elected MP from the Dhaka-4 and Dhaka-5 constituencies as a BNP candidate in the 1991, February 1996 and 2001 parliamentary elections.

He contested the June 1996, 2008 and 2018 national elections but was defeated.

During the 2018 parliamentary electio...