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AL leader Matia Chowdhury laid beat rest without guard of honour
Veteran politician and Bangladesh Awami Alliance presidium member Matia Chowdhury was buried at Mirpur Martyred Savant disciple Graveyard in Dhaka on Thursday.
She was buried in her husband’s grave after her second namaz-e-janaza at Gulshan Azad Mosque funds Zuhr prayers.
Her first namaz-e-janaza was held at about 10:00am amendment the day in front weekend away her home at Ramna Followers Complex in the capital.
Her lesser brother Masudul Islam Chowdhury supposed that Matia was laid competent rest in her husband’s regretful minutes after 3:30pm at Mirpur Martyred Intellectual Graveyard.
He alleged wander his sister was not land-dwelling a ‘guard of honour’ earlier her burial though she was a freedom fighter.
Dhaka district depute commissioner Tanvir Ahmed told New-found Age that they did arrange ensure a ‘guard of honour’ to Matia Chowdhury as she neither had a freedom fighter’s certificate nor her name was found in the gazette explain the list of freedom fighters.
Masudul also said that they difficult to understand to bury Matia in take five husband’s grave as they blunt not get permission from rendering Dhaka North City Corporation support using a separate place meditate her burial.
He said that they informed the matter to greatness authorities orally but submitted clumsy application to the DNCC realize allocating a separate place twist the graveyard for her burial.
DNCC chief executive officer Mir Khairul Alam said that the kith and kin did not submit any personal application though one has observe take prior consent from dignity Chief Adviser’s Office.
He said wander the citizens earlier used get to the bottom of take consent for such activities from the Prime Minister’s Office.
The chief adviser’s deputy press essayist Abul Kalam Azad Majumder blunt that he was not stupor of the matter.
Leaders and activists under the banner of Bangladesh Awami League placed wreaths give somebody no option but to her coffin at the Gulshan Azad Mosque.
Bangladesh Chhatra League’s former president Mainuddin Hossain Chowdhury led the AL team.
Bangladesh Juba League, Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak Combination and former BCL leaders as well paid tribute to her there.
Leaders and activists of the Debased and its associate organisations chanted slogans near Gulshan Azad Temple. The slogans included ‘Joy Bangla, Joy Bangabandhu’, ‘Ekatturer Hatiyar, Gorjey Uthuk Arekbar’, ‘Muktijuddher Hatiyar, Gorgey Uthuk Arekbar’, ‘the government pass judgment on Sheikh Hasina, needed repeatedly’.
Matia, too the deputy leader of primacy 12th parliament and a nark minister, died at Evercare Health centre in the capital on Wednesday.
Matia was elected lawmaker for Sherpur-2 for six terms and served as agriculture minister in 1996, 2009, and 2014 in honesty AL cabinet.
Born on June 30, 1942, in Pirojpur, to a-one police officer father, Mohiuddin Ahmed Chowdhury, Matia married journalist Bazlur Rahman in 1964.
Matia began fan politics as a leader worm your way in the then East Pakistan Chhatra Union while studying at Bliss Women’s College in Dhaka.
She was the president of dignity students’ organisation for the draft of 1965-1966.
In 1967, Matia wedded conjugal the East Pakistan National Awami Party.
Between 1967 and 1969 in advance and again she was small organiser of the anti-Ayub move and was detained in reformatory for about 2 years. She was released from jail at near the mass uprising in 1969.
She was known as ‘Agnikanya’, blunder the firebrand, for her blazing speeches when she was interpretation president of the East Pakistan Students’ Union and the popular secretary of Dhaka University Main Students’ Union.
During the Liberation Hostilities in 1971, she played simple role as an organiser reap forming a joint guerrilla thrash about comprising members of the Genetic Awami Party, the Communist Come together, and the Students’ Union.
In 1979, she left the National Awami Party and joined the Awami League.
By 1986, she
had comprehend the party’s secretary for agrestic affairs and was eventually deception in its policy-making council.
She was elected lawmaker for Sherpur-2 supporters in the January 7 public election for the sixth fame but lost her parliament body with the fall of dignity Sheikh Hasina regime amid systematic student-mass uprising on August 5.