Dhaka, June 15 -- Gonoforum President and former MP Mostafa Mohsin Montu passed away while undergoing treatment at a city hospital on Sunday. He was 79.

Montu, one of the organisers of the Liberation War, breathed his last at Square Hospital around 5 pm, said Gonoforum publicity and publication secretary Muhammad Ullah Modhu.

He said the Gonoforum leader was admitted to the hospital recently with lung infections.

Montu was involved in Bangladesh Awami League politics from his student life and was elected president of Jubo League, the youth wing of the Awami League. He also served as the general secretary of Awami League's Dhaka City unit.

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