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Published : 16 May 2026, 11:43 AM
Mizanur Rahman Sinha, managing director of ACME Laboratories Limited and a former state minister for health, has died in Singapore while undergoing treatment. He was 83.
He passed away at 2am on Saturday, Munshiganj-2 constituency MP Abdus Salam Azad said.
"He had been hospitalised for a long time,” Azad said, adding that arrangements to bring the body back to Bangladesh are under way and the media would be informed in due course.
His daughter and ACME Deputy Managing Director Tasneem Sinha also broke the news on Facebook.
Sinha had been in line for the BNP nomination in the national election from the Munshiganj-2 (Louhajang-Tongibari) seat, but illness forced him out of the race.
BNP Joint Secretary General Azad stepped in as the replacement candidate.
A two-time MP, Sinha first won the Munshiganj seat in the seventh parliamentary polls in 1996 and held it again in the eighth in 2001.
That same year, he served as state minister for health and family welfare in Khaleda Zia's cabinet, while also wearing the hats of treasurer of BNP's central executive committee and convenor of the district BNP.
Born on Aug 18, 1943, in Dahuri village of Kalma Union in Louhajang Upazila, he was the son of Hamidur Rahman Sinha and Nurjahan Sinha.
He grew up in Kolkata before completing his higher secondary at Government Tolaram College in Narayanganj and going on to graduate in business from Dhaka University.
He cut his teeth in the corporate world at Habib Bank in 1964.
After his father's death in 1975, he came back to take the reins of the family-founded ACME Group, eventually rising to managing director in 1983.
Beyond ACME Laboratories, Sinha chaired Sinha Knit Industries Limited, Sinha Knit and Denims Limited, Kalyar Packaging Limited, Kalyar Replica Limited, and ACME Overseas Trading Limited.
He also served as a director of Sinha Printers Limited, The ACME Agrovet and Beverages Limited, and ACME Consumer Products Limited.
Politics ran in his blood from early on. As a student at Tolaram College, he won the post of general secretary in the student union elections before finding his way to the BNP.
His death has cast a long shadow over political circles, the pharmaceutical industry, and the broader business community.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, along with elected BNP MPs from Munshiganj, offered condolences to the bereaved family and prayed for the departed.
