Awami League Presidium member and Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam's body will be brought back home on Saturday.

The mortal remains will be flown by a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Bangkok at 4pm local time and the flight will reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka after 6pm.

Earlier, he breathed his last at Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok on Thursday night, just four days after he was elected an MP of the 11th Parliament from Kishoreganj-1 constituency.

The legendary politician was battling lung cancer for a long time, family sources said.

Syed Ashraf, son of national leader and Bangabandhu’s close aide Syed Nazrul Islam, left behind one daughter and a host of relatives to mourn his death.

He became a member of the Parliament on the AL ticket from Kishoreganj-1 in 1996 after returning home. He was re-elected in 2001, 2008 and 2014.

He was involved in politics from his student life. He became the General Secretary of greater Mymensingh District Chhatra League and assistant publicity secretary of the central unit.

According to the sources, in 1975, following the killing of his father in prison along with three other national leaders, he immigrated to the United Kingdom and lived in London Borough of Tower Hamlets.