Prof Mujibur Rahman Devdas passes away

United News of Bangladesh . Rajshahi | Published: 11:56, May 19,2020 | Updated: 12:00, May 19,2020

 
 

Mujibur Rahman Devdas. -- UNB photo

Mujibur Rahman Devdas, Ekushey Padak winning professor of mathematics at Rajshahi University, passed away on Monday due to old age complications. He was 90.

‘Prof Devdas passed away at his home at Mahurul village in Sadar upazila in Joypurhat district around 10am on Monday,’ said the university proctor Lutfor Rahman.


He was buried in the evening at the family graveyard at his village, he added.

Prof Devdas was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2015 for his contributions to the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.

He earned MSc in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics.

He had taken the name Devdas in 1971 while staging the symbolic protest against the Pakistani occupation Army’s brutal persecution on Hindu minorities in Rajshahi.

Meanwhile, his decision of changing his name had cost him a lot. The occupation army caught him and put into torture cell for about five months.

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