The third anniversary of the death of Serajul Alam Khan, one of the key organisers of the country’s War of Independence, will be observed today.
Serajul Alam, a political thinker and confirmed bachelor, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on June 9, 2023, at the age of 82.
Different factions of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal and organisations have taken various programmes to observe the day.
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal–JSD will hold a discussion at the National Press Club in Dhaka at 11:00am on Tuesday to mark the day.
A team of central leaders of JSD will place wreaths on the grave of Serajul Alam Khan in Noakhali today, a party release said.
Leaders of the Serajul Alam Khan Centre and Research Institute will hold a discussion at the auditorium of the centre in Dhaka to mark the day.
The Khulna branch of the centre will also hold a discussion at its office to mark the day, a press release of the centre said.
Serajul Alam Khan, widely known as ‘Dada’ in the political circles, mobilised students and people during the 1960s for an armed struggle against the Pakistani rulers.
Soon after the independence, he founded the Jatiya Samajtatnrik Dal in 1972.
He was laid to rest in the family graveyard at Alipur village of Begumganj in Noakhali.
Born in Begumganj of Noakhali on January 6, 1941, he studied in Khulna Zila School, Dhaka College and Dhaka University.
Serajul Alam was among the three student leaders who formed the Swadhin Bangla Biplabi Parishad, also known as ‘Nucleus’, in 1962. The other two were Abdur Razzaque and Kazi Aref Ahmed.
Serajul Alam was elected as the general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League for the 1963–65 period.
He supported the six-point demand placed by Awami League leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on June 7, 1966.
During his long political career, Serajul Alam had to languish in jail for seven years. He was arrested after November 1975.
He was in Kolkata when the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated with all of his family members but the two daughters — Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana.
