The state minister for Social Affairs Promod Mankin passed away undergoing treatment at Mumbai’s Holy Family Hospital early Wednesday.
Social Welfare ministry’s public relation officer Maidul Islam and his nephew Sang confirmed the death to media.
They said Mankin’s daughter Mala Martha told them about the minister’s death over phone from Mumbai.
Mankin was taken to India on 16 April for better treatment as he had been suffering from lung cancer. His body will be flown to Dhaka on Thursday.
President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have expressed profound shock at the death of Mankin.
They also prayed for the eternal peace of his departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the family members of the bereaved.
Promod Mankin was a resident of the village of Kochundhara at Haluaghat upazila in Mymensingh. He was elected as a lawmaker from constituencies of Haluaghat and Dhobaura in Mymensingh.
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