Dhaka: The namaz-e-janaza of slain Gaibandha Awami League Lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton from Gaibandha-1 constituency held on the Parliament premises on Monday morning.

The funeral prayer held at about 10:00am at the South Plaza of Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.

Later, his body will be taken to Gaibandha for his burial in his family graveyard at about 4:00pm.

Miscreants shot ruling Awami League lawmaker from Gaibandha-1 (Sundarganj) constituency Manjurul Islam Liton dead in a gun attack at Bamandanga village in Sundarganj upazila on Saturday.

Doctors declared the child-shooter MP dead at about 7:30pm, 15 minutes after he was rushed at the Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) with two bullet wounds in the chest from his home at Sundarganj.

Gaibandha police said two unidentified men shot Liton from a close proximity at his village home at Masterpara near Bamondanga railway station as they appeared at the scene mounting on a motorbike at about 6:00pm, saying they wanted to meet him.

Liton’s younger sister Tahmida Bulbul Kakoli filed the complaint against around 5 unidentified people with Sundarganj Police.

Meanwhile, law enforcers arrested 18 people from separate places of the district from Saturday night to Sunday noon in connection with the murder.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) were also deployed in several points of the upazila to ward off any untoward incident. 

Besides, Awami League Sundarganj upazila unit observed a daylong hartal in the upazila protesting the murder.

Witnesses said a group of pickets set fire to rail tracks near Bamandanga Railway Station in the morning.

The agitating leaders and activists of local Awami League blocked several roads in the upazila placing logs in at least 12 places.

Separate processions were brought out by local AL leaders and activists and general people demanding justice for Lawmaker Liton.

Talking to reporters, general people and local AL leaders blamed the lack of security for the MP for the killing.

Meanwhile, a three-member delegation of Awami League, led by its central leader Jahangir Kabir Nanak, visited the family members of the slain MP.

An autopsy was conducted on the body of the slain lawmaker at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) at about 11:00pm on Saturday, said Dr Bimal Chandra of RMCH.

Liton hit headlines after shooting a minor boy, Sourav, 8, son of Sazu Miah of Gopalcharan village in the upazila, on 2 October, 2015.