Sr. Staff Reporter, Rangpur :
The former district commander of the Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad Rangpur district unit Command, valiant freedom fighter Manjurul Islam (Junior Leader), Body No. 1/23 Indian List No. 30081 Gazette No. 73 Kotwali Rangpur, held a press conference to protest against the writing published in the book “SmritteRanangon” by the Rangpur District Administration, which conducted operations of others in its own name without conducting operations in the Great Liberation War. Body No. 1/23 Indian List No. 30081 Gazette No. 73 KotwaliRangpur.
In a written speech at a local hotel auditorium at 11 am on Saturday, he said that as the commander of the Rangpur District MuktijoddhaSangsad Command, I have served with honor for 22 years. Since I was trained as a demo expert in the Great Liberation War, I served as a junior leader in the Great Liberation War and under my leadership, I was responsible for destroying the bridge No. 208 between the first Chilahati Mirjaganj Railway Station in Sub-Sector No. 6. I, along with my fellow comrades Matiur Rahman Chowdhury, Khandaker Golam Kibria, Md. Abdul Latif, Md. Shah Alam, Md. Ismail Hossain, Md. Yunus, Nurul Amin Rahim Uddin and a team of 11 people, started our journey after evening and destroyed the bridge at around 3 am with 30 pounds of explosives.
In the past, Md. AsibAhsan, while serving as the Deputy Commissioner of Rangpur, published a book titled Ranangon in Memory of the Liberation War, based on the writings of freedom fighters. In that book, the article, which claims to be the story of the destruction of the bridge, is published under the name of Freedom Fighter Sirajul Islam Gazette No.
140 Father Deceased. RafizUddin, Mother Deceased. SalehaKhatkhatiaPurbaparaParashuram Ward No. 5, Rangpur Metropolitan, which is false. In his article, he claimed himself to be a specially trained freedom fighter of the Demolition Charge of the First Company of Sector No. 6. In reality, he is a freedom fighter who has received general training as a freedom fighter. He did not receive any special training. If you check the Indian number 38215 of the Freedom Fighters Welfare Trust, the real information will come out.
Even after I served as the district commander for a long time, the Deputy Commissioner at that time did not include me in any publication committee, labeling me a BNP supporter. After the book was published, I presented the overall picture and appealed to the Rangpur Deputy Commissioner with a complaint. At that time, he called the incident sad and said that it would be corrected quickly. But that did not happen. During the Awami League regime, DC AsibAhsan left Rangpur with promotion and benefits. And freedom fighter Sirajul Islam is taking advantage of that writing in various places. Not only that, although freedom fighter Sirajul Islam was a freedom fighter under my section, he was not in that operation. However, in the publication of the Rangpur District Commissioner, the then District Commissioner, knowing the matter, deliberately published it in the name of Sirajul Islam, a beneficiary of the Awami League government, and blurred the achievements of me and my team.
Which was not desirable in any way. The DC could have made a correction in the published book, but he did not. In the published book, freedom fighter Sirajul Islam said that he was injured in the Liberation War and admitted to Binnakuri Army Hospital and received treatment for 16 days. Which is completely false. If he was injured, we would have known. He took credit for performing all the operations of others in his own name to prove himself. The responsibility for which fell on the then Deputy Commissioner AsibAhsan. He demanded justice from the advisor of the Ministry of Freedom Fighters’ Affairs at the press conference.
At this time, 7/8 freedom fighters who participated in the Liberation War, including freedom fighters Khandaker Md. GolamKibria, freedom fighters Shamsul, GolamRabbani, spoke in the presence.
