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EKUSHEY-AWARD-JABBER (With picture)
Freedom fighter Abdul Jabber gets Ekushey Padak 2020
DHAKA, Feb 19, 2020 (BSS) – Former Awami League lawmaker and freedom
fighter Abdul Jabbar (posthumous) has got the prestigious “Ekushey Padak-
2020” in the Liberation War category.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to hand over the award tomorrow
among all 20 eminent persons and an organisation on the eve of the Amar
Ekushey and the International Mother Language Day.
Born on November 17 in 1945 at Kulaura Thana in Moulvibazar district under
the greater Sylhet division, Jabbar with hundreds of students and common
people formed ‘Sangram Committee’ to mobilise support for the country’s War
of Liberation in 1971 responding to the call of Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
He joined the front-fighting against the Pakistani occupation force in the
battle fields directly under the 4 no Sector as the deputy commander of the
Moulvibazar Sub-Sector under the 4 no sector of Bangladesh Liberal Force or
Mujib Bahini.
The organiser of the War of Liberation served jail for holding rally and
showing placards during a Provat Feri on February 21 marking the Language
Movement in 1952, student movement in 1962 and protesting the brutal killing
of Bangabandhu in 1975 along with his most of the family members.
Jabbar played vital role in all democratic movements, including movement
for education in 1962, Six Point Movement in 1966, Mass Uprising in 1969 and
anti-autocratic movement in 1990.
The veteran freedom fighter was elected as a member of parliament with
AL’s ticket and its election symbol ‘Boat’ in 1979.
Jabbar breathed his last due to cardiac arrest on August 28, 1992 at the
age of 47.
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