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TRIBUTE-ROY-RAMESH
Last tributes pour in for labour leader Roy Ramesh
DHAKA, May 17, 2019 (BSS) – People from all walks of life paid their last
respects to renowned labour leader as his body was brought to Bangabandhu
Avenue and the Central Shaheed Minar premises this afternoon.
The body of Sramik League leader was kept at the Central Shaheed Minar at
about 3:30 pm.
Earlier, his body was kept at the Jatiya Sramik League office at
Bangabandhu Avenue from 2:30 pm to 3:00 pm to pay last tribute by his
political comrades.
Later, from the Shaheed Minar, the body was taken to Dhakeshwari temple
where people also paid their respects to him. The body will be cremated at
his village home of Shreepur under Magura district.
Representatives of different political, socio-cultural organizations and
professional bodies paid their last tributes to their leader by placing
wreaths at his coffin there.
People who gathered to pay their last tribute to him include: Awami League
advisory council member Mukul Bose, AL labour and manpower secretary and
chairman of Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS) Habibur Rahman
Siraj, JSD general secretary Shirin Akhter, MP, Saifuzzaman Shekhor, MP,
Shamsun Nahar Bhuiyan, MP, Jatiya Sramik League president Shukkur Mahmud and
general secretary Sirajul Islam, former JSL president Abdul Matin Master, Dr
Wajedul Islam of Sramik Kormochari Oikya Parishad.
Former Jatiya Sramik League general secretary Roy Ramesh Chandra died of
heart attack at his Lalmatia residence here on Wednesday morning.
The former member of the governing body of International Labour
Organisation died at 68.
Ramesh, also president of United Federation of Garment Workers, left
behind his wife, a daughter and a son, his grandchildren and a host of
relatives as well as admirers to mourn his death.
BSS/ASG/MAR-SIR/RY/1810 hrs