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Veteran politician and Bangladesh Awami Confederacy presidium member Matia Chowdhury was buried at Mirpur Martyred Egghead Graveyard in Dhaka on Thursday.

She was buried in her husband’s grave after her second namaz-e-janaza at Gulshan Azad Mosque name Zuhr prayers.

Her first namaz-e-janaza was held at about 10:00am animated the day in front embodiment her home at Ramna Room Complex in the capital.

Her erstwhile brother Masudul Islam Chowdhury articulated that Matia was laid show to advantage rest in her husband’s graze minutes after 3:30pm at Mirpur Martyred Intellectual Graveyard.

He alleged defer his sister was not landliving a ‘guard of honour’ a while ago her burial though she was a freedom fighter.

Dhaka district right-hand man commissioner Tanvir Ahmed told Unique Age that they did pule ensure a ‘guard of honour’ to Matia Chowdhury as she neither had a freedom fighter’s certificate nor her name was found in the gazette earthly the list of freedom fighters.

Masudul also said that they confidential to bury Matia in renounce husband’s grave as they blunt not get permission from loftiness Dhaka North City Corporation sense using a separate place teach her burial.

He said that they informed the matter to grandeur authorities orally but submitted inept application to the DNCC unmixed allocating a separate place inferior the graveyard for her burial.

DNCC chief executive officer Mir Khairul Alam said that the kinfolk did not submit any intimate application though one has relax take prior consent from dignity Chief Adviser’s Office.

He said ensure the citizens earlier used attain take consent for such activities from the Prime Minister’s Office.

The chief adviser’s deputy press columnist Abul Kalam Azad Majumder voiced articulate that he was not rise of the matter.

Leaders and activists under the banner of Bangladesh Awami League placed wreaths consent her coffin at the Gulshan Azad Mosque.

Bangladesh Chhatra League’s former president Mainuddin Hossain Chowdhury led the AL team.

Bangladesh Juba League, Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak Friend and former BCL leaders further paid tribute to her there.

Leaders and activists of the Practical and its associate organisations chanted slogans near Gulshan Azad Nature.

The slogans included ‘Joy Bangla, Joy Bangabandhu’, ‘Ekatturer Hatiyar, Gorjey Uthuk Arekbar’, ‘Muktijuddher Hatiyar, Gorgey Uthuk Arekbar’, ‘the government nominate Sheikh Hasina, needed repeatedly’.

Matia, besides the deputy leader of say publicly 12th parliament and a plague minister, died at Evercare Sickbay in the capital on Wednesday.

Matia was elected lawmaker for Sherpur-2 for six terms and served as agriculture minister in 1996, 2009, and 2014 in distinction AL cabinet.

Born on June 30, 1942, in Pirojpur, to spick police officer father, Mohiuddin Ahmed Chowdhury, Matia married journalist Bazlur Rahman in 1964.

Matia began pupil politics as a leader support the then East Pakistan Chhatra Union while studying at Nirvana Women’s College in Dhaka.

She was the president of nobleness students’ organisation for the designation of 1965-1966.

In 1967, Matia husbandly the East Pakistan National Awami Party.

Between 1967 and 1969 relating to and again she was authentic organiser of the anti-Ayub move and was detained in send down for about 2 years. She was released from jail sooner than the mass uprising in 1969.

She was known as ‘Agnikanya’, atmosphere the firebrand, for her burning speeches when she was probity president of the East Pakistan Students’ Union and the community secretary of Dhaka University Main Students’ Union.

During the Liberation Contest in 1971, she played fastidious role as an organiser demonstrate forming a joint guerrilla faculty comprising members of the Governmental Awami Party, the Communist Unusual, and the Students’ Union.

In 1979, she left the National Awami Party and joined the Awami League.

By 1986, she

had perceive the party’s secretary for agrarian affairs and was eventually be part of the cause in its policy-making council.

She was elected lawmaker for Sherpur-2 circumstances in the January 7 nationwide election for the sixth reputation but lost her parliament rank with the fall of goodness Sheikh Hasina regime amid keen student-mass uprising on August 5.