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Barrister Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar, a veteran leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), passed away at the age of 95. His extensive political career, which spanned more than five decades, saw him hold several of Bangladesh's highest offices.

Sircar served as acting president, speaker of parliament, and held ministerial portfolios in public works and urban development, foreign affairs, land, education, science and technology, and law, justice, and parliamentary affairs. He was instrumental during the BNP's tenure in completing the construction of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban and was involved in introducing the constitutional provision for parliamentary elections under a caretaker government.

Born in 1931, Sircar pursued higher education in law at the University of Dhaka and later qualified as a barrister-at-law from Lincoln's Inn in London. He began his legal practice in 1950 and established himself as a prominent lawyer. His political journey started with the Student Federation in 1945, and he was actively involved in the 1971 Liberation War.

After the BNP's return to power in 2001, he was elected speaker of the eighth Jatiya Sangsad. He also served as acting president of Bangladesh from June 21 to September 6, 2002. Following the Awami League's victory in the 2008 elections, Sircar, as speaker of the outgoing parliament, administered the oath to the newly elected members.