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ALAMGIR-MEMORIAL-MEETING
Rich tributes paid to journalist Shah Alamgir at JPC
DHAKA, March 22, 2019 (BSS) – Journalists, colleagues and admirers at a
memorial meeting today on late eminent journalist and former Director General
of Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) paid rich tributes to him.
At the outset of the meeting at the Jatiya Press Club (JPC), one minute
silence was observed and a song was rendered in memory of Alamgir. A
documentary on his life and works was screened on the occasion.
Chief Information Commissioner Martuza Ahmed, Managing Director and Chief
Editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Abul Kalam Azad, Communist Party
President Mujahidul Islam Selim, Jatiya Press Club President Saiful Alam,
Ekattur Television Chief Editor and Managing Director Mozammel Babu, Dainik
Sangbad Editor Khandker Maniruzzaman, Prothom Alo Joint Editor Sohrab Hasan,
Samakal Assistant Editor Ajay Dash Gupta, JPC General Secretary Farida Yasmin
and Alamgir’s wife Fouzia Begum, among others, attended the function.
Broadcast Journalist Center (BJC), Bangladesh organised the memorial
meeting with its Chairman and Head of News of Masranga Television Rezwanul
Haque Raza in the chair.
Centre’s Member Secretary and Head of News of Ekattur Television Shakil
Ahmed delivered welcome address and BJC trustee Rashed Ahmed conducted the
memorial meeting.
While reminiscing on life and works of the veteran journalist, his
colleague and fellow journalists said Shah Alamgir was always vocal on
realizing rights of journalists. Until his death, he had struggled to reached
the country’s journalism to a unique height, they said.
The journalists expected that Alamgir’s devotion and sincerity to
journalism will always be followed by new generation journalists.
BJC Trustee and Editor-in-Chief of Gtv Syed Istiaque Reza handed over a
water-colored photograph of Alamgir to his family.
BSS/KAK-MKD/SSS/2020 hrs