Published : 18 Oct 2025, 06:41 PM
Updated : 21 Aug 2026, 02:36 PM
Ahsan Ullah Chowdhury, a Language Movement veteran, freedom fighter and politician, has died while undergoing treatment at the age of 90.
He passed away around 9:15pm on Friday after struggling with various age-related complications for a long time, according to his son-in-law Arifur Rahman.
Ahsan was an active participant in the Language Movement. During the Liberation War in 1971, when local students, workers, and residents resisted the unloading of weapons from the Pakistani ship “Swat” at the Chattogram port, he played a key role in organising the resistance.
He was a former president of the Trade Union Centre’s Chattogram unit. He also served as a presidium member of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) and was a former president of its Chattogram district committee.
His first funeral prayer was held at 10am on Saturday in the residential area near Afmi Plaza in Chattogram city. Later, tributes were paid to him at the CPB office on Hazari Lane.
The second funeral prayer will be held after the Zuhr prayer at his family home in Chattogram's Mirsarai Upazila.
