Moradabad, Jun 9 (PTI) Moradabad former mayor and senior journalist Humayun Qadeer died of COVID-19 in a hospital here on Wednesday. He was 73.
He is survived by his wife, two daughters and a son.
Qadeer's younger brother said he was suffering from lungs and kidney ailments for the last two years, was also found corona positive recently and was undergoing treatment in a private hospital here.
Humayun Qadeer was the founder and editor of Urdu daily Aain-e-Aalam' and was elected the first mayor of Moradabad on a Samajwadi Party ticket in 1995.
His father Haji Abdul Qadeer too was elected the first chairman of the Moradabad municipal board in 1952.