A condolence meeting was held on Saturday (Jan 7) to commemorate Dr S A Malek, former Political Adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Bangabandhu Parishad President, at Dhaka University's Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium. Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr. Md. Akhtaruzzaman presided over the meeting, organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences, said a press release.
Former DU VC Dr. AK Azad Chowdhury, Attorney General AM Amin Uddin, noted journalist Swadesh Roy, General Secretary of Bangabandhu Parishad Professor ABM Faroque, columnist Subhash Singha Roy, SA Malek's daughter Aboni Mahbub, noted educationists, politicians, among others, addressed the mourning discussion.
Dr S A Malek, also former lawmaker from Faridpur-1 constituency, died of a massive heart attack on Dec 6, 2022 at 86.
Malek considers his participation in Bangladesh's glorious War of Liberation to be the greatest event of his life. As a dissenting political worker, he had to suffer repression and imprisonment due to political reasons at various times in his life.
In 1973, he was elected parliament member as the Awami League nominee from Faridpur-1 (Goalondo-Rajbari) constituency.
Dr. Malek played a very vital role in putting up an effective resistance movement after Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was brutally killed along with most of his family members on Aug 15, 1975.
For this reason, he was compelled to take refugee outside the country at one stage. After returning home in 1980, he concentrated on properly reorganizing the Bangabandhu Parishad.
He performed the responsibility of the general secretary of the organization for the last two and a half decades and presently was performing as its president.
Dr. Malek has played a pivotal role in uniting all progressive intellectuals of the country who uphold the spirit of independence, democracy and the War of Liberation.
Malek was made the Political Adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 1996. He was the author of the Stream of Thoughts: Part I, II and III, Abarudha Ganotantrer Du Dashak, Rajniti.
