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Chittagong Correspondent

Anwara Samity in Dhaka in a statement issued yesterday expressed deep shock at the demise of Language veteran and poet Mahbub-ul-Alam Chowdhury.

Leaders of the association called him a great son of this soil and his demise caused permanent and irreparable damage to the nationalistic spirit and contemporary Bengali literature.

President and General Secretary of the association ATM Jafarullah Chowdhury and Akhtarul Islam were among the signatories to the statement that hoped the nation would remember poet for his courageous role during the language movement.