Memorial meeting on AL leader Ishaque Mia held

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BSS, Chittagong :
Awami League (AL) advisory council member Dr Anupom Sen paid glowing tributes to AL advisory council member, elderly politician, liberation war organizer and former member of the parliament late Mohammad Ishaque Mia for his outstanding contributions to politics.
“We have many things to learn from the prolonged political legacy of unselfishness that he has left for the rank and file of the party”, he said in a memorial meeting.
Eminent social scientist and vice-chancellor of Premier University Prof Dr Anupom Sen was addressing the memorial meeting on the late Mohammad Ishaque Mia, AL advisory council member, as chief guest.
Swdhinata Utshab Udjapan Parisad Chittagong organized the function, held at Shishu Academy on Friday night.
Paying rich tributes to late Mohammad Ishaque Mia, a freedom fighter of the country’s liberation war, Dr Anupom Sen said late Ishaque Mia became politician from the grass-root level.
Engineer Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, secretary of the Swdhinata Utshab Udjapan Parisad presided over function and was addressed, among others, by city AL vice president Muktijuddah Noym Uddin Chowdhury, Central Sramik League leader Shofar Ali, AL league leaders Sheikh Mahmud Ishak, penel mayor Chowdhury Hasan Mahmud Hasni, Mahbubul Hoq Mia and Chittagong Press Club vice President Monjur Kader Monju.
Other speakers said Ishaque Mia silently worked for the independence and prosperity of the country throughout his life and worked for flourishing culture and literature of the region.
Ishaque was a Member of the National Assembly in 1970 and a member of parliament from Doublemooring and Port constituency in 1986.
Fire guts 3 shops : At least three shops were gutted in a fire at Bay shopping center at Chittagong Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) in the city early yesterday.
Fire service officials said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a shop in the market around 2.30 am and it quickly engulfed the adjacent shops.
Four units of fire fighters rushed to the spot and brought the flame under control around 4.30 am.
The extent of loss from the fire could go up to TK 10 lakh, they said, adding none was reportedly injured in the fire.
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