Teary mass people gather to pay tribute the fearless hero, Osman Hadi’s grave
Staff Reporter :
People in large numbers thronged the gravesite of Osman Hadi from Sunday dawn, forming long queues to pay their respects.
The area remained heavily crowded as mourners, many traveling from distant areas, gathered to offer prayers and visit the grave. Security personnel and volunteers were seen managing the flow of visitors to prevent congestion on the adjacent roadway.
Mourners came from different parts of the city, and from outside the capital as well, arrived to offer prayers and pay their last respects.
Many carried flowers, recited verses from the Quran and stood silently in contemplation at the graveside.
Witnesses said mass people started gathering before sunrise. By mid morning, the crowd had swelled, spilling over onto the adjoining footpaths and even part of the roadway.
The heavy turnout caused significant congestion in the surrounding area. Traffic slowed to a crawl as motorists attempted to navigate through the mass of pedestrians, parked vehicles and onlookers. At several points, police and traffic officials were seen redirecting vehicles and asking pedestrians to remain on one side of the road. Rickshaw pullers and motorcyclists waited impatiently at intersections as the crowd periodically blocked their path.
Law enforcement agencies and local authorities deployed additional personnel to the site to ensure security and crowd control.
Bangladesh plunged into grief as the nation observed a state mourning day for Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, the intrepid Inqilab Moncho activist whose brutal killing has ignited outrage and renewed calls for justice. He was a living reflex of Kazi Nazrul Islam in our fractured times, exposed the rot of corruption with a courage that now defines his eternal legacy.
Hadi’s final hours unfolded like a tragedy scripted in truthfulness and transparent justice.
Hadi’s life was a heroic ideal of unmasked truths, delivered with the raw fire of a poet-warrior. Rising from the streets of Dhaka, he joined Inqilab Moncho – a youth-led movement demanding accountability after the July Revolution. His “bloody revelations,” as activists call them, were livestreams and speeches that peeled back the veil on the superior classes’ corruption.
“Corruption is the cancer eating our revolution,” Hadi roared in one clip, viewed millions of times. His words, laced with Quranic verses and Nazrul’s rebellious fervour, mobilised thousands, turning Inqilab Moncho into a mass medium against the very betrayals that birthed the uprising.
Sharif Osman Bin Hadi was no armchair critic. He embodied patriotism’s purest form: selfless, honest, and unrelenting and he was born to humble roots, he dropped university to lead street protests, embodying Nazrul’s “Bidrohi” spirit, the rebel poet who defied colonial chains.