UNB, Dhaka :
Leaders and activists of BNP on Thursday paid last respect to their vice chairman and freedom fighter Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who died in the USA on Monday, by placing wreaths on his coffin.
The coffin of Khoka, former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation, was taken to BNP’s Nayapaltan central office at.
about 1:30pm, and kept on a temporary stage in front of it, enabling party leaders and activists to have a last glimpse of their late leader. Thousands of BNP leaders and activists gathered in Nayapaltan area and bid tearful adieu to their beloved leader.
In a brief address prior to a Janaza there, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, “It’s a shocking day for us. We’re here in front of the beloved party office of Sadeque Hossain Khoka to join his janaza. He had been out of the country for five years as he was subjected to the government’s vengeance. The government implicated him in false cases and convicted him.”
Stating that Khoka played an outstanding role in liberating Bangladesh, he lamented that the valiant freedom fighter could not breathe his last in his own country.
“Our leader Khaleda Zia also could not see him for the last time as she’s staying in jail,” Fakhrul lamented.
The BNP leader said the vacuum that created following the death of Khoka will never be filled. “When the role of Sadeque Hossain Khoka was very crucial in restoring democracy, freeing our leader (Khaleda), he left us at his bad time. We pray to Allah to grant him Jannah.
Khoka’s son Ishraque Hossain said his father was loyal to his party and its chairperson Khaleda until the last day of his death. “His last world to me was not to make any compromise over bringing him back to the country. He told me don’t do anything without the consent of Khaleda Zia and BNP as he didn’t want anybody to call him collaborator for making any understanding with the government.”
Leaders and activists of BNP on Thursday paid last respect to their vice chairman and freedom fighter Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who died in the USA on Monday, by placing wreaths on his coffin.
The coffin of Khoka, former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation, was taken to BNP’s Nayapaltan central office at.
about 1:30pm, and kept on a temporary stage in front of it, enabling party leaders and activists to have a last glimpse of their late leader. Thousands of BNP leaders and activists gathered in Nayapaltan area and bid tearful adieu to their beloved leader.
In a brief address prior to a Janaza there, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, “It’s a shocking day for us. We’re here in front of the beloved party office of Sadeque Hossain Khoka to join his janaza. He had been out of the country for five years as he was subjected to the government’s vengeance. The government implicated him in false cases and convicted him.”
Stating that Khoka played an outstanding role in liberating Bangladesh, he lamented that the valiant freedom fighter could not breathe his last in his own country.
“Our leader Khaleda Zia also could not see him for the last time as she’s staying in jail,” Fakhrul lamented.
The BNP leader said the vacuum that created following the death of Khoka will never be filled. “When the role of Sadeque Hossain Khoka was very crucial in restoring democracy, freeing our leader (Khaleda), he left us at his bad time. We pray to Allah to grant him Jannah.
Khoka’s son Ishraque Hossain said his father was loyal to his party and its chairperson Khaleda until the last day of his death. “His last world to me was not to make any compromise over bringing him back to the country. He told me don’t do anything without the consent of Khaleda Zia and BNP as he didn’t want anybody to call him collaborator for making any understanding with the government.”
