DHAKA, Aug 27, 2022 (BSS) - The 30th death anniversary of ex-Awami League lawmaker Abdul Jabbar, also a close associate of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will be observed in a befitting manner tomorrow.

On the occasion, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate message paying glowing tributes to former Awami League leader Abdul Jabbar and said his honesty and ideology would always remain as a source of inspiration for the young politicians. 

The premier said Jabbar, also the former acting president of the Bangladesh Krishak League, was arrested and tortured several times for protesting against the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by holding protest-rally and Gayebana-janaza on August 17 just after the assassination of Bangabandhu in Kulaura upazila under Moulvibazar district of Sylhet division. 

After arresting him, Major Noor, one of Bangabandhu's killers, tortured Jabbar throughout the night in a brutal way and threatened to gun down him in the early morning, she said.
However, the then army officer Amin Ahmed Chowdhury rescued Jabbar and he survived in this way, she added.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Jabbar, an Ekushey Padak winner, had played remarkable roles in numerous movements including the 1962 Education Movement, the 1966 Six-point movement, the 1968 Agartala Conspiracy Case, the 1969 mass uprising, 71's Liberation War and the mass movement in 1990. 

He was vice president of the Bangabandhu Parishad and the Muktijoddha Sanghati Parishad, she said, adding that he was deeply involved with the Red Crescent Society and the Ekattorer Ghatak-Dalal Nirmul Committee. 

The premier prayed for the eternal peace of the departed soul of Jabbar. 

Jabbar was born in 1945 in Kulaura of Moulvibazar in the then Sylhet district of British India's Assam Province.