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Sunday, February 3, 2008

[mukto-mona] Saif Uddin Ahmed Manik has passed away

Saif Uddin Ahmed Manik dies
Staff Correspondent

Senior politician and Gana Forum's general secretary, Saif Uddin Ahmed Manik, died
   on Sunday at a city hospital. He was 69.
   The leftist politician was diagnosed with cancer last year and taken to Singapore for treatment. He was brought back to Dhaka two weeks ago and admitted to the Comfort Hospital on January 24.
   Manik was the general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh for many years until the party split in the early 1990s. He broke away from the party due to ideological differences and later chose to join a party launched by Dr Kamal, who had earlier left the Awami League.
   Manik left behind his wife, Professor Dr Fouzia Moslem, two daughters, Saima Ahmed Jaya and Sangita Ahmed Geeti, and a host of political colleagues and followers, relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death.
   Gana Forum president Dr Kamal Hossain, Awami League presidium members Tofail Ahmed and Suranjit Sengupta and leaders of various political parties rushed to the hospital to see the deceased for the last time.
   Communist Party of Bangladesh president Monzurul Ahsan Khan and general secretary Mujahidul Islam Selim, Dhaka mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka and other politicians went to his Gopibagh home and conveyed their deep sympathy to the members of the bereaved family.
    The body of Manik, who was a freedom-fighter, was taken to his residence at Gopibagh where several hundred people flocked to pay their last respects to the late leader.
   Manik was one of the founders of Brothers Union Club, where his body was kept until 5:00pm. A namaz-e-janaja was held at the Gopibagh mosque after maghrib prayers.
   The body was kept at the BIRDEM mortuary after the prayers.
   Manik's body will be taken to the Moni Singh Farhad Smriti Trust Bhaban at Purana Paltan this (Monday) morning and to the Central Shaheed Minar at 11:00am. A namaz-e-janaja will be held at the National Eidgah.
   He will be buried at the Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard on Monday after his younger daughter, Sangeeta Ahmed Geeti, arrives from London.
   Manik was born on June 24, 1939 in Jalpaiguri in the then undivided India. The family later settled in Feni after the partition in 1947.
   Manik was a front-ranking leader in the student and political movements of 1962, 1966, 1969, the War of Independence in 1971 and the anti-autocrat movement in 1990.
   He had led a number of organisations throughout his career and was involved in establishing Chhayanaut, the leading cultural organisation.
   He was a trade union leader and worked hard to organise the workers of the now closed Adamjee Jute Mills.
   He left the CPB as the party was divided in opinion in 1993 after breakage of the Soviet Union.
   He became the general secretary of Gana Forum after the party was formed in 1993.
   President Iajuddin Ahmed and chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed expressed their deep shocks at the death of senior politician Saifuddin Ahmed Manik and conveyed their sympathy to the bereaved family.
   In separate messages, they recalled Manik's long political career and said he would be remembered for his great contribution to 60s' student movements, Liberation War and all democratic and progressive political movements.
   Many political parties, social, cultural and sports organisations and individuals in separate statements condoled the death of the veteran leader.
   Awami League's acting president Zillur Rahman, BNP's secretary-general Khandaker Delwar Hossain and former secretary-general Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal faction's president Hasanul Haq Inu, Workers Party's president Rashed Khan Menon, Communist Party of Bangladesh, Samyabadi Dal leaders of Left Democratic Front, Ganatantrik Bam Morcha, Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies, Sammilita Sangskritik Jote, Jatiya Sramik Jote Bangladesh, Bangladesh Nari Mukti Sangsad, Chhatra Sangram Parishad, Bangladesh Chhatra Union, Bangladesh Chhatra Moitri, Bangladesh Gana Shilpi Sangstha and the National Sports Council, Bangladesh Handball Federation, Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation, Bangladesh Khokho Federation and Sports Journalists Association condoled Manik's death.
   They prayed for the departed soul of the leader.
   Our correspondent from Narayanganj adds: Gono Forum local unit's president Delwar Hossain Chunnu and general secretary Talat Hossain, CPB's president Dulal Saha and general secretary Ziaul Hoq Dipti, former leader Rathin Chakrabarti, Advocate Montu Ghosh, Rokonuddin Ahmed, Moloy Das Chandan, Rafiur Rabbi, Narayanganj Sangskritik Jote's president Bhabani Sankar Roy and its former president Zahidul Hoq Dipu expressed deep sorrow at the death of Saifuddin Ahmed Manik.
 
 

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