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Don't play down Serajul Alam’s part

It is consecutively two years(especially, on the occasion of the Mar 7 celebration), I have noticed so far, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina uttered the name Serajul Alam Khan with a great unease seemingly nullifying something unconventional whisper of history—to some extent, an individual Serajul Alam’s influence on some historical events in pre-liberation wartime history. Last year she called him a schemer. I can understand her political grudge with him originated at the time  of JaSoD emerged by a splintered group from ‘Chhatra League’ in 1972. Prime Minister apprised Serajul Alam’s pressuring on Bangabandhu to proclaim independence in his Mar 7 speech as an intrigue. Prime Minister believes complying with his exhortation would trigger riots across the state at that time. But the then ‘Nucleus’ project — in the early 60s for independence — led by Serajul Alam Khan in company with Abdur Razzak and Kazi Aref Ahmed was never mentioned significantly in her any speech. I don’t expect a poli