Sadeq Khan worked for the cause of countrymen’

Language movement hero, freedom fighter and journalist Sadeq Khan worked throughout his life for the cause of people, discussants at a citizens’ commemorative meeting in memory of the journalist said on Friday.
Sadeq Khan Nagarik Smaran Sabha Ayojok Committee organised the meeting at the National Press Club in the capital where his friends, followers, family members and leading citizens of the country attended.
Also a contributing editor at Weekly Holiday and a recipient of Ekushe Padak in 2002, Khan died at his Baridhara residence in the capital on May 16 at
the age of 83.
New Age editorial board chairman ASM Shahidullah Khan, also a younger brother of Sadeq Khan, addressing the meeting on behalf of the family said all his brothers received an education in independent thinking and liberal
mentality.
He said that his elder brother always spoke about engagement with people from every walk in life and of advancing society together even after differences of opinion.
‘He used to dream, let others to dream and left behind dreams. We expect that we will be able to make his dreams true,’ Shahidullah Khan said.
Former finance former finance minister M Saiduzzaman focused on Khan’s contribution in the language movement and his arrest then and recalled that he used to borrow different books on education, culture and politics from Khan.
Filmmaker Hafiz Uddin recalled Khan directing and producing ‘Nodi O Nari’, the first art house film in the then East Pakistan, and praised khan as ‘a very simple and a good man.’
Dhaka University’s development studies professor Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir praised Khan’s outstanding ability to respect dissenting opinion. ‘He had the ability to know himself in light of contemporary society…. He was concerned with assault on freedom of expression and the geo-political situation of the country.’
Former lawmaker Abu Hena said that Khan’s writing captured the unrest of contemporary society and that he spent his life for the cause of people.
Dhaka city BNP joint-convener Abdul Awal Mintoo said Khan’s death had created a great vacuum which would be difficult to fulfill.
Columnist Rita Khan described Khan as an outstanding creative man, hard working, a thinker and a planner.
Presided over by the committee convener Mohammad Munir-Uz-Zaman, the meeting was also addressed by former advisor to the caretaker government Mainul Hosein and the committee member Delwar Hossain, among others.

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