On the eve of the Victory Day, a freedom fighter was laid to eternal rest without state honours in Narsinghdi. He died of heart failure on Sunday night.
Independence-loving people, particularly freedom fighters, brought the country’s independence from the clutches of Pakistan through nine-month struggle in 1971.
Freedom Fighter Farid Uddin, son of late Abdul Rahim, originally hailed from Rupshadi village in Brahmanbaria’s Banjarampur upazila.
He relocated to Kishoreganj Sadar upazila’s Dakkhin Shilamandi village 27 years ago and had ever since been living there.
He retired from his job in the country’s army in 1994. After his namaj-e-janaza on the premises of Shilmandi Primary School, he was buried at the village graveyard at 11am yesterday.
His son Faisal Hossain said: “After my father died, I informed it to District Freedom Fighters’ Commander Abdul Motalib Pathan and Banjarampur Upazila Deputy Commander Abdul Latif.”
“Still, my father did not get any state honours. It is very shocking that my father had to be buried without state honours.”
Narsinghdi District Freedom Fighters’ Commander Motaleb Pathan said he had got the news of freedom fighter Farid Uddin’s death too late and so he could do nothing like giving state honours to him.
“We would put forward a mourning motion over his death tomorrow (today).”
When Deputy Commissioner Abu Hena Morshed Zaman was asked about this, he said he had not received any written complaint until yesterday afternoon.
“However, it is the state’s responsibility to give a freedom fighter state honours at the funeral. I will take steps after looking into this.”