People of Rangpur’s Pirganj demanded exemplary punishment of executive magistrate Tapashee Tabassum Urmi who made controversial comments on Facebook about Begum Rokeya University’s student-martyr Abu Sayed.
A human chain was formed at Pirganj Press Club premises on behalf of the family of martyr Abu Sayed and all people from all spheres of the locality. Rangpur district BNP convener Saiful Islam, Pirganj upazila BNP convener Mahmudunnabi Palash Chowdhury, joint convener Shahinuzzaman Shahin, martyr Abu Said's elder brother Ramzan Ali, Abul Hossain, student coordinator Nahid Islam, journalist Abdul Karim Sarkar and Begum Rokeya University students Ruhul Amin and others spoke at the event.
Speakers in the meeting said that the student of Shaheed Begum Rokeya University, Abu Sayed, was the first to be shot by the police in the anti-discrimination student movement that was organized for the fall of the dictatorial Hasina government. His death was witnessed by the whole country and the world. Hundreds of students were killed in the intense movement of the students that was booted up for his self-sacrifice. Hasina's government has finally fallen. Hasina was forced to flee the country in the face of mass protests.
The martyrs of this movement are widely recognized by the countrymen and the whole world; however, the audacity shown by Magistrate Urmi towards Abu Sayed as a government official is totally unacceptable, they added.
Bd pratidin English/Lutful Hoque