Man who read independence manifesto dies Shajahan Siraj (1943-2020)

Shajahan Siraj, one of the key organisers of Liberation War in 1971, passed away at a hospital in Dhaka yesterday. He was 75. The veteran politician, who read the manifesto of the country's independence in presence of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and millions of others on March 3, 1971, was suffering from lung cancer. He breathed his last around 3:30pm while receiving