A top leader of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) M K Anwar died yesterday at his Elephant Road residence in Dhaka. He was 84.
Anwar, a bureaucrat-turned politician, breathed his last at around 1:20am, said BNP spokesperson Sayrul Kabir Khan.
He was a BNP standing committee member and former minister. The veteran BNP leader had long been suffering from diabetes, heart disease and various old age complications.
He is survived by wife Mahmuda Anwar, daughter Khadiza Anwar and two sons Mahmud Anwar and Masud Anwar.
Born in Homna in 1933, Mohammad Khorshed Anwar, popularly known as M K Anwar, joined the then civil service and also served the country’s administration after the liberation
in 1971.
After his retirement from public service as the cabinet secretary in 1990, he joined BNP in 1991 and was inducted in the cabinet twice in 1991 and 2001 when the party came to power.
He was elected member of parliament five times from Homna constituency.
Anwar was reappointed as BNP standing committee member when the party’s highest policymaking body was formed following its 6th national council in 2016.
On August 18, 2015, a Comilla court sent him to jail rejecting his bail petition in a case filed for petrol bomb attack on a bus in Chouddagram upazila on
February the same year.
Later, he was also shown arrested in some other cases filed in connection with violence during the BNP-led 20-party’s
movement early 2015.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and secretary general Fakhrul Islam Alamgir expressed deep shock at his death.
Fakhrul visited Anwar’s residence in the morning and consoled the bereaved family members.
M K Anwar
