Politicians, academics, journalists and professionals on Saturday at a discussion in Dhaka said that Ekushey Padak-winning journalist Mahfuz Ullah worked for establishing democratic rule in the country.
The friends and family of Mahfuz Ullah organised the discussion at the National Press Club to celebrate the Ekushey Padak-2025 awarded him posthumously for his contribution to journalism.
Addressing the discussion, Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Ialam Alamgir said that Mahfuz Ullah worked for reinstating democratic rule in the country.
Mirza Fakhrul also called on journalists to follow the ideal of Mahfuz Ullah.
BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said that Mahfuz Ullah was involved in student politics, and never compromised to express truth in his journalist carrier.
Another BNP standing committee member Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku said that Mahfuz Ullah was his contemporary and never involved with any political party.
Charing the discussion, economist Mahbub Ullah, eldest brother of Mahfuz Ullah, said that a freedom fighter, Mahfuz Ullah, had no greed to get any certificate or awards.
Political scientist and former Jahangirnagar University teacher Dilara Chowdhury hoped that journalists would work for fulfilling the unfinished works of Mahfuz Ullah.
Mahfuz Ullah was such a journalist who had no greed to earn assets using his journalism carrier, mentioned Dhaka University professor Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir.
Mahfuz Ullah died at hospital in Bangkok, Thailand on April 27, 2019.
Former secretary Ismail Zabiullah, press secretary of chief adviser Shafiqul Alam, chief editor and managing director of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha Mahbub Morshed, journalists Golam Mortoza, Amirul Islam Kagozi and son of Mahfuz Ullah Mostafa Habib, among others, spoke at the programme.
Ekushey Padak-winning photojournalist Shahidul Alam and artist Rokeya Sultana and family members of Mahfuz Ullah, among others, attended the programme.
