Dhaka: The second and third namaz-e-janazas for BNP standing committee member HM Hannan Shah, who died in Singapore on 27 September, were held in Dhaka on Thursday.

His second funeral prayer was held at Mohakhali DOHS Mosque at about 10:00am where people from all walks of life, including politicians, attended.

Bikalpa Dhara President AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury, LPD chief Oli Ahmed, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq, ex BNP leader Tanvir Ahmed Siddiqui and Kalyan Party Chairman Maj Gen (retd) Syed Mohammad Ibrahim, among others joined the janaza.

His third Janaza was held at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad at about 11:30am.

From the Parliament complex, Hannan Shah’s body is being taken to BNP’s Nayapaltan central office where his fourth janaza will be held after Zuhr prayers.

The BNP leader’s first namaz-e-janaza was held at a mosque in Singapore at 8:30pm (Singapore time) on 27 September.

Hannan Shah, a military officer-turned politician, died at Raffles Heart Centre in Singapore at the age of 77.

His body was brought home on Wednesday evening by a flight of Bangladesh Airlines and later it was kept at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) mortuary.

He will be buried at his family graveyard in Gazipur’s Kapasia after Jumaa prayers on Friday.

Hannan Shah was born in Kapasia’s Ghagtia in 1939. His father Fakir Abdul Mannan was a minister of the Pakistan government from 1965-68.

After his retirement from Bangladesh Army, Hannan Shah joined BNP in 1983 and was made Dhaka city unit BNP’s joint convener, and inducted into the cabinet when BNP came to power in 1991.

He had also been elected lawmaker twice from Gazipur-4 constituency.