Salahuddin Ahmed

Ahmed had been suffering from age-related illnesses for several years. He was recently admitted to Evercare Hospital in Dhaka with lung problems and other complications, and he died there while receiving treatment at 8:10 pm on Tuesday 13 October 2026, aged 80. Early reports gave no more specific cause of death.

His son Tanvir Ahmed Robin announced the death in a social media post asking for prayers and confirmed it to UNB and other outlets. He said the namaz-e-janaza would be held after Zuhr prayers at the Lal Mosque in Shyampur-Kadamtali on Wednesday 14 October. According to Jugantor, BNP acting secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, standing committee members Mirza Abbas and Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, and leaders of other parties and organisations expressed their condolences.

Salahuddin Ahmed was 80 when he died in October 2026, which places his birth around 1946. His exact date and place of birth, and details of his education, were not given in the reports of his death. He built his political life in Dhaka, and Bangladeshi newspapers referred to him with the honorific Alhaj, used for those who have performed the Hajj pilgrimage.

Ahmed rose through the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in the capital and served as general secretary of the undivided Dhaka city BNP. Later he held the post of Commerce Affairs Secretary on the party's central committee, which he still held at the time of his death.

He was first elected to the Jatiya Sangsad in the 1991 general election, winning the Dhaka-4 seat for the BNP. He was re-elected in the February 1996 election and again in 2001, serving in the fifth, sixth and eighth parliaments. Reports of his death describe him as a former member for the Dhaka-4 and Dhaka-5 constituencies. He stood again in the June 1996, 2008 and 2018 elections but was defeated each time.

During the BNP's long period in opposition he faced criminal cases. In August 2015 Wari police filed a chargesheet against 34 people, including Ahmed, over a petrol bomb attack on a passenger bus and the vandalising of vehicles near the Gulistan toll plaza of the Mayor Hanif Flyover in January 2015. He went into hiding, and when he surrendered to a court in February 2021 he was denied bail and sent to jail, New Age reported.

In the 2018 general election he was again the BNP candidate for Dhaka-4. On polling day he was attacked and seriously injured with a knife at a polling station while protesting what he described as voting irregularities.

Ahmed's son, Tanvir Ahmed Robin, is also a BNP politician and serves as member secretary of the party's Dhaka South City unit. It was Robin who confirmed his father's death. Other details of his family life were not reported.

Ahmed is remembered as one of the BNP's veteran organisers in Dhaka, a three-time member of parliament from the capital who contested the capital's parliamentary seats for nearly three decades. His career, from his first victory in 1991 through his injury on polling day in 2018, followed the party's fortunes in government and in opposition, and his son carries on his work in the Dhaka South City BNP.