Mohibullah Babunagari has been declared the new ameer of Hefazat-e-Islam.

Hefazat Secretary General Nurul Islam Zihadi announced this before conducting the namaz-e-janaza of former Ammer Junayed Babunagari at the Hathazari Madrasa on Thursday night.

Over one lakh people joined the namaz-e-janaza of Junayed Babunagari held at 11.00 pm at Hathazari Madrasa.

Mohibullah Babunagari is the maternal uncle of Junayed Babunagari.

Born in February 1935, Mohibbullah Babunagari is a Deobandi Islamic scholar, politician and religious speaker.

Junayed Babunagari breathed his last at CSCR Hospital in Chattogram while undergoing treatment around 12:30pm on Thursday (August 19).

He was 67.