Sun News Desk: Jatiya Sangsad (JS) deputy leader and Awami League (AL) presidium member Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury has died at a city hospital on Sunday night. She was 87 years old.

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Sajeda Chowdhury breathed her last at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka at 11:40 pm, family sources said.

Sajeda Chowdhury was a valiant freedom fighter and one of the organizers of the Liberation War. She was elected parliament member several times from Faridpur-2 constituency.

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She was sick for several years. She was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital last week.

Her body will be taken to her constituency Nagarkanda in Faridpur from Dhaka this afternoon. After namaj-e- janaza there, the body will be brought back to Dhaka. Her namaj-janaza will also be held at the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad.

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She will be laid to eternal rest at Banani graveyard.

She joined the Awami League in 1956. She served as the founding general secretary of the Mohila Awami League 1969–1975.

She was the founding director of Kolkata Gobra Nursing Camp during the War of Independence.

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Sajeda Chowdhury was born in 1935. The veteran politician joined the politics of AL in the fifties. After the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on August 15, 1975, she played an important role in keeping the AL organized at a critical moment.

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