United News of Bangladesh

Former state minister for health and family welfare and Managing Director of Acme Laboratories Ltd and Acme Group Mizanur Rahman Sinha died in Singapore early Saturday while undergoing treatment. He was 83. Contacted, Munshiganj-2 lawmaker Abdus Salam Azad said Sinha died at around 2:00am at a hospital in Singapore after prolonged illness. “He had long been undergoing treatment there. Efforts are underway to bring his body back to Bangladesh. Details will be announced later,” Salam said. Sinha’s daughter and Deputy Managing Director of Acme Tasnim Sinha also confirmed her father’s death in a Facebook post. Mizanur Rahman was nominated by BNP from Munshiganj-2 (Louhajang-Tongibari) constituency for the 13th parliamentary election. But after he fell ill, BNP Joint Secretary General Abdus Salam Azad was nominated in his place. He was elected MP from the constituency in the seventh parliamentary election in 1996 and again in the eighth parliamentary election in 2001 as a BNP candidate. Following the 2001 election, he served as state minister for health and family welfare in the cabinet led by former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia. Apart from serving as treasurer of BNP’s central executive committee, he was also convener of the district BNP. Mizanur Rahman Sinha was born on August 18, 1943, in Dohuri village of Kolma Union under Louhajang upazila in Munshiganj district. His father was Hamidur Rahman Sinha and mother Nurjahan Sinha. He spent part of his childhood in Kolkata before completing higher secondary education at Government Tolaram College in Narayanganj. He later earned a degree in business studies from the University of Dhaka. Sinha began his professional career in 1964 at Habib Bank. After the death of his father, he joined the family-founded Acme Group in 1975 and became its managing director in 1983. He became involved in politics during his student life. While studying at Government Tolaram College, he was elected general secretary of the student union as its candidate in the student union election. Later, he joined BNP. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and BNP lawmakers from Munshiganj expressed deep sorrow at his death and conveyed sympathy to the bereaved family. He also prayed for the salvation of the departed soul.