Comrade Jasim laid to rest with state honour
Veteran communist leader Comrade Jasim Uddin Mondal was laid to eternal rest with state honours at his family graveyard in Pabna's Ishwardi upazila yesterday.
The renowned revolutionist, who breathed his last at a hospital in the capital on Monday, was buried after his third namaz-e-janaza at Ishwardi Central Eidgah premises around 10:30am.
The upazila administration accorded a guard of honour to the noted anti-British movement leader before his burial.
Alongside his family members, hundreds of people from all walks of lives, including leaders and activists of different political parties and representatives of socio-cultural organisations joined the funeral.
After the janaza prayers on Dhaka University campus and his ancestral home in Kushtia on Tuesday his body reached Ishwardi early yesterday.
“Comrade Jasim Mondal played vital roles in movements to uphold human rights. He never thought about his personal profit, rather dedicated himself to the welfare of the people,” Monjurul Ahsan Khan, adviser of CPB central committee, said.
Born in 1920, Jasim Uddin joined the Communist Party of India in 1940, saved hundreds of lives from the rage of communal riots in 1946, and fought in Bangladesh's liberation war in 1971.
Son of a railway staff in Kushtia's Mirpur, Jasim served the railway too as a coal engine worker.
He joined labour and communist movements very early in his life and served 17 long years in jails all around.
Jasim took up a railway job in Pabna and later settled down in Ishwardi. In post-partition (India-Pakistan) days, Jasim joined movements against the then Pakistani misrule, losing his government job in early '50s.
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