Students and people paid their last respect to organising secretary of Dhaka City unit of Bangladesh Chhatra Federation Julfikar Ahmed Shakil at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital on Thursday.
Julfikar was seriously wounded on Sunday in the quota reform movement in Mirpur as Awami League-backed Juba League and Chhatra League cadres attacked on a rally of the students.聽聽聽
He succumbed to his injuries at the National Institute of Neuro Sciences and Hospital on Wednesday.
Placing wreath on the body of Shakil, chief coordinator of Ganosamhati Andolan Zonayed Saki said that the role of Shakil and others would be remembered who sacrificed their lives in organising the quota reform movements.
Aimed at eliminating fascist system from the country and to reform the state, the students-led mass uprising forced the country鈥檚 longest serving prime minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India on Monday.
The month-long protest left 373 people, including students, killed by law enforcers in Dhaka as elsewhere across the country.
The Revolutionary Workers Party general secretary Saiful Huq, Rastra Sanskar Andolan chief coordinator Hasnat Quaiyum, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD general secretary Shahid Uddin Mahmod Shapon, Jatiya Mukti Council secretary Faiezul Hakim, Ganosamhati executive coordinator Abul Hassan Rubel, central leader Taslima Akhter, Monir Uddin Pappu, Chhatra Federation president Al Amin Rahman, general secretary Nusrat Haque, among others, placed wreaths on the body.
