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Anti-autocracy student movement leader Shafi Ahmed passes away

Published : Tuesday, 4 June, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 159
Shafi Ahmed, one of the key orgnisers of student protests during the anti-autocracy movement against the HM Ershad regime in the 1980s, passed away in Dhaka.

He was 63.

Hasanul Haq Inu, president of the Jatiyatabadi Samajtantrik Dal or JSD, said the former student leader died in his sleep around 6:45pm on Monday. A doctor confirmed that he had passed away after he was taken to a Uttara hospital, Inu said. Shafi was the general secretary of JSD-Chhatra League during the anti-autocracy movement while studying law at Dhaka University. He later joined the Awami League and became an assistant secretary of the central committee.

Shafi then served as a member of the partys Liberation Affairs Sub-committee. The Awami League nominated him to run for parliament from the Netrokona-4 constituency in the general elections which were scheduled for 2007 but forestalled.

After failing to secure the ruling partys ticket in the last four general elections, he stood as an independent in the Jan 7 polls, but his nomination was scrapped by the Election Commission. Ershad fell in early December 1990 but much of what led to his downfall had happened in the 1980s.

Shafi played a key role in keeping the anti-Ershad campaign on the Dhaka University campus on track throughout the 1980s.    —bdnews24.com

Shafi Ahmed was a campus legend in the 1980s and remained a key figure when the general finally gave up.

The former student leader was one of those that foiled attempts to derail the pro-democracy movement by agents planted by the desperate general in his last days in power.

Shafi led or controlled many of those crucial events that led to the eventual downfall of the disgraced dictator in early December 1990.    —bdnews24.com



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