From New Age
The ninth anniversary of death of the legendary figure in the communist movement in the Indian subcontinent Amal Sen was observed on Monday through a commemorative ceremony held at the Workers Party of Bangladesh office in the capital.
The programme organised by the Amal Sen Smriti Rakkha Committee started with placing of wreaths at a portrait of the revolutionary communist icon, who was the founding president of the WP.
‘It’s a duty of all to show due respect to the late Comrade Amal Sen,’ WP president Rashed Khan Menon said.
WP general secretary Anisur Rahman Mollick and politbureau members Nurul Hasan Selim, Communist Party of Bangladesh president Manzurul Ahsan Khan and general secretary Muzahidul Islam Selim, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal secretary Sharif Nurul Ambia and assistant secretary Shirin Akhter, Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal general secretary Khaliquzzaman, Gonotantrik Party secretary Nurul Rahman Selim, 11-party alliance convener Mahmudur Rahman Babu, Gano Forum leader Pankaj Bhattacharya, and Sramik Karmachari Oikko Parishad coordinator Wazedul Islam, among others, were in the ceremony.
A two-day fair will also start in Bakri of Narail on Tuesday to commemorate Amal. The fair will feature programmes including placing of wreaths at the place of Amal Sen’s cremation, a discussion, a rally, and cultural shows.
After the
formation of a unified Workers’ Party of Bangladesh, he was elected president of it in 1992 and again in 1995, and had held this post till 2000. He then
served as a WP central committee member until his death on January 17, 2002.
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