Mizanur Rahman Sinha, a former state minister and senior figure in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, died in a Singapore hospital in the early hours of May 16. He was 83.

His daughter Tasneem Sinha confirmed the news of his death.

Mizanur Rahman Sinha served as state minister for health and family welfare from 2003 to 2006 and won the Munshiganj-2 parliamentary seat on the BNP nomination in the 1996 and 2001 general elections. He also held the post of treasurer on the party’s central committee.

Sinha announced his retirement from politics in 2020 while the Awami League held power. He then re-entered active politics last year, accepting the role of convener of the Munshiganj district BNP during the interim government. Party leaders included his name on the candidate roster for the 13th national election, but later withdrew the nomination because of his deteriorating health.

Sinha began his career at a bank in 1964. He joined the family conglomerate ACME Group in 1975 upon the death of his father, Hamidur Rahman Sinha, who founded the business. He had served as its managing director since 1983.

Fellow BNP lawmakers expressed condolences and mourned his death.

Sinha was born on August 18, 1943, in Dohuri village in Munshiganj district’s Louhajang upazila.