<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Former Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar passed away at United Hospital in the capital on Wednesday (Aug 24). He was 80.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mahbub Talukdar, a renowned poet, juvenile writer and former civil servant, breathed his last at around 1pm, his eldest daughter Irin Mahbub said.</div><div><br></div><div>He served as the Election Commissioner of Bangladesh from 2017 to 2022.</div><div>The valiant freedom fighter was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2012 for his contribution in juvenile literature.</div><div><br></div><div>Mahbub Talukdar and his wife Nilufar Begum have two daughters and a son. He joined the exiled government in 1971.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div><div><br></div>