Alhaj Mohammed Zainul Abideen, the elder brother of Leader Of Opposition in the Telangana State Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir passed away on Friday at the age of 67.
Mohammed Zainul Abideen, who was fighting cancer for a long time now, collapsed due to a sudden fall in blood-sugar levels on Friday at around 6.50 am. He was rushed to Care Hospital at Banjara Hills immediately where he was declared dead-at-arrival. The body was taken to Kamareddy for burial.
Thousands of people took part in the Namaz-e-Janaza at the Masjid-e-Bilal. He was buried in an adjacent cemetery.
Governor E S L Narasimhan spoke to Shabbir Ali over phone and consoled him. Among others who expressed their condolences include TPCC President N Uttam Kumar Reddy, CLP leader K Jana Reddy, Telangana Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao, Siasat Editor-in-Chief Zahed Ali Khan and News Editor Amer Ali Khan, Khaled and Faisal of Munsif Daily, Karnataka Minister Roshan Baig, Gulbarga MLA Qamar-ul-Islam, TPCC Working President Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, MLC Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy and Congress MLC Akula Lalitha, and other prominent religious, political and media personalities.
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