Researcher, writer and intellectual Badruddin Umar, president of the Jatiya Mukti Council, has unequivocally rejected the honor to accept Swadhinata Padak (Independence Award) maintaining his decades-long stance against accepting state accolades.
He said this in a notification released to the media on Thursday night by his organization's secretary Faizul Hakim.
Earlier, the government has nominated eight distinguished individuals, including Badruddin Umar, for this year's Independence Award in recognition of their national contributions.
According to the statement he said, "Since 1973, I have been offered awards by various government and private organizations but haven't accepted any of them."
‘Now the interim government has announced that it will honor me the Swadhinata Padak. While I thank the current interim government for this nomination, I cannot accept the Independence Award either,' he said.
The individuals under consideration include the Commander-in-chief of the Liberation War General MAG Osmani, Eminent Scientist Professor Jamal Nazrul Islam; BRAC founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, poet Al Mahmud, pop legend Azam Khan, renowned sculptor Novera Ahmed, who is one of the key designers of the Central Shaheed Minar and Abrar Fahad, a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), who was killed by members of the now-banned Chhatra League in October, 2019.
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