People from all walks of life have paid glowing tributes to Jatiya Sangsad deputy leader and Awami League presidium member Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury.

Sajeda Chowdhury’s body was taken to the Central Shaheed Minar at around 3:00pm on Monday to allow the people to have the last glimpse of this veteran politician and one of the organizers of the country’s Liberation War.

Earlier, the first namaz-e-janaza of Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury was held in Nagarkanda upazila of Faridpur.

The namaz-e-janaza was held around 11 am at MN Academy school premises.

She was given a guard of honour before the janaza.

Another namaz-e-janaza of Sajeda Chowdhury will be held at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque after Asr prayers. She will be laid to rest with state honour at Banani Graveyard.

Faridpur-2 MP Sajeda Chowdhury passed away at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka on Sunday night at the age of 87.

Sajeda Chowdhury was born on May 8 in 1935. The veteran politician joined the politics of AL in 1956. 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.

In 1976, Sajeda Chowdhury became the AL's acting general secretary. Later, she was the party's full general secretary from 1986 to 1992. Before that, she was the general secretary of Mahila Awami League from 1969 to 1975.