Journo Syed Shahjahan dies of Covid-19
Staff Correspondent
28th April, 2021 08:50:46
Veteran journalist and valiant freedom fighter Syed Shahjahan passed away at a hospital in the capital on Wednesday. He was 78.
The former press secretary of Bangladesh’s first temporary President Syed Nazrul Islam breathed his last at Crescent Hospital in Uttara.
He left behind his wife, a son, daughter, and a host of relatives and well wishers to mourn his death.
His wife Syeda Jahanara Shefali said Syed Shahjahan fell sick on April 22 and his sample was tested immediately.
Later he was tested positive for coronavirus and he was admitted to Crescent Hospital on April 23 night. Later he was shifted to the intensive care unit as his health condition deteriorated.
Journo Syed Shahjahan dies of Covid-19
Veteran journalist and valiant freedom fighter Syed Shahjahan passed away at a hospital in the capital on Wednesday. He was 78.
The former press secretary of Bangladesh’s first temporary President Syed Nazrul Islam breathed his last at Crescent Hospital in Uttara.
He left behind his wife, a son, daughter, and a host of relatives and well wishers to mourn his death.
His wife Syeda Jahanara Shefali said Syed Shahjahan fell sick on April 22 and his sample was tested immediately.
Later he was tested positive for coronavirus and he was admitted to Crescent Hospital on April 23 night. Later he was shifted to the intensive care unit as his health condition deteriorated.
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Not at all. You are not a witness: you re a part of history, Tawfiq.
Tajuddin Ahmad spoke these words when Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury thanked the newly sworn-in prime minister of the first government of Bangladesh for giving him the opportunity to be a witness to history on April 17, 1971.
Tawfiq, then a sub-divisional officer of erstwhile Meherpur sub-division, indeed witnessed the momentous occasion, a red-letter day in the history of the country: the oath-taking ceremony of the Mujibnagar Government, which performed all of the wartime tasks and led the Bangladesh War of Liberation.
It was on this day, 50 years ago, when the provisional government-in-exile took oath at a mango grove in Baidyanathtala, a border area in the present Meherpur district. Baidyanathtala was later named Mujibnagar.