<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud today expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of AL lawmaker of Natore-4 constituency Abdul Quddus.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In a message of condolence, the minister said, "Quddus was a close associate of Bangabandhu".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He was elected lawmaker for five times and he was a state minister of fisheries and livestock ministry during 1996-2001 AL tenure, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hasan, who is now visiting London to attend Parliamentary Security Intelligence Forum, prayed of eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Abdul Quddus died at a hospital in Dhaka today. He was 77.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Quddus, President of Natore district unit of AL, had been undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of United Hospital where he breathed his last at 7:22am. BSS</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>