City Desk :
Senior journalists and journalists’ organizations paid glowing tributes to BSS former city editor Shamsul Alam Belal as his body was taken to the Jatiya Press Club (JPC) where his first namaz-e-janaza was held on Monday.
Scores of journalists and Belal’s fellow colleagues, including BSS Managing Director and Chief Editor Abul Kalam Azad, the Daily Observe Editor Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, former President of BFUJ- Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul and former Secretary General of BFUJ Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan joined the funeral prayers held on the JPC premises at 11.30am.
Later, tribute was paid to senior journalist, columnist and poet Belal, whose actual name is Shamsul Alam Bhuiyan, by the JPC, BFUJ, Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) and Dhaka Reporters’ Unity.
JPC President Farida Yasmin and General Secretary Elias Khan, BFUJ President Omar Faruque and Treasurer Khairuzzaman Kamal, DUJ General Secretary Sajjad Alam Khan Tapu and DRU General Secretary Nurul Islam Hasib paid tributes to Belal on behalf of their respective organizations by placing wreaths on his coffin.
