Cumilla Mayor Arfanul Rifat dies

News Desk :
Arfanul Haque Rifat, the mayor of Cumilla city, has died under hospital care in Singapore at the age of 65.

He died during treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital around 6:30 pm (BST) on Wednesday, according to Cumilla-6 MP AKM Bahauddin Bahar, reports bdnews24com.

Arfanul, the general secretary of the Awami League’s Cumilla Metropolitan unit, was suffering from respiratory complications and other ailments for a long time.

He leaves behind his wife and three children.

Arfanul Haque Rifat won the high-voltage Cumilla City Corporation election, reversing the winning streak of independent runner Monirul Haque Sakku in a very close contest on 15 June 2022, which he won by a margin of 343 votes.

According to family sources, Arfanul Haque Rifat passed SSC in 1974 from Cumilla Zilla School.