পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৪০

504 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম সংবাদপত্র তারিখ Promise fulfilled Bangladesh 8 September, 1971 Vol. 1: No. 1 | PROMISE FULFILLED Bangladesh Government has paid all the arrear pension due to the poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, after Pakistan Government stopped it. In a brief but impressive ceremony in the Calcutta residence of the poet on 4" September, H.E. Mr. M. Hossain Ali, Bangladesh High Commissioner in India, presented a cheque of Rs. 2,100.00 towards the payment of the arrear pension to the poet. While the High Commissioner was implementing the Bangladesh Cabinet decision, the Pakistan Government renewed the pension offer only to be rejected by the poet’s eldest son Kazi Sabyasachi. Mr. Ali in his brief speech told that he was there to present the monthly allowance on behalf of 75 million people and the government of Bangladesh. He said, “Our resources are very limited. But we foster to keep open the door of free thinking and human values.” Mr. Ali spoke in nice Bengali, while dealing with the national characteristics of Bengalis he remarked that whenever the national life was under the shakles of subjugation, the Bengalis, in various ways tried to break the chain. The poet, he went on, who in the days of British hegemony was the first to lift his fisted hand with the slogan of whom the poet craved, of whom he dreamt, are now engaged in liberation of their motherland with guns in their hands. The bullets will clear off the enemies of humanity shortly, he added.