BNP Vice Chair Ruhul Alam dies of Covid-19
BNP vice-chairperson Major General (Retd) Ruhul Alam Chowdhury died of Covid-19 infection at a city hospital yesterday morning.
He breathed his last around 11:15am at the intensive care unit of Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka, Emran Saleh prince, an organising secretary of BNP confirmed.
Ruhul Alam, a former advisor to the caretaker government, was earlier admitted to the hospital with the infection.
He was buried at Banani military graveyard following namaz-e-janaza after Asr prayer.
Born in Pekua upazila of Cox's Bazar in 1947, he joined Bangladesh Army in 1972 and retired from the service in 1998.
Ruhul Alam was made one of the advisers to the caretaker government by then President Iajuddin Ahmed in 2006.
He was made then BNP Chairperson's Khaleda Zia's adviser in 2009 and party vice-chairman in 2016.
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