[caption id="attachment_131" align="alignleft" width="500"]<img class="wp-image-131 size-full" src="http://accessit-host.com/rednews24/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/new07.jpg" alt="Sammilita Sangskritik Jote holds a commemorative rally on the late language movement hero Abdul Matin at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Saturday. " width="500" height="305" /> Sammilita Sangskritik Jote holds a commemorative rally on the late language movement hero Abdul Matin at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka on Saturday.[/caption]

<div id="stcpDiv" style="text-align: justify;">Cultural activists, academics and language movement activists on Saturday said that language hero Abdul Matin had the opportunities of luxuries and had been offered to be a minister, but he refused and preferred the path struggle and prison for his ideology.
Addressing a discussion programme commemorating Abdul Matin at National Shaheed Minar organised by Sammilita Sangskritik Jote, they
said that Abdul Matin had been jailed on five occasions for his struggle for establishing a discrimination-free society.
Language hero Ahmad Rafique said that Matin believed in ideology of establishing a society free from discrimination and none should question the ideology.
Matin was not ambitious and he always wanted to have a society free from discrimination, said Rafique.
Former Sammilita Sangskritik Jote president Nasiruddin Yousuf Bachchu said that language movement had directed the path of Bangladesh’s liberation and Matin and his fellows had directed towards the concept of ‘language-based nationalism.’
Noted singer Farik Alamgir said that Abdul Matin was inspired by the ideology of Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani. He had struggled throughout the life in pursuit of the ideology.
The speakers demanded that all the illicit activities on the Shaheed Minar podium must be stopped immediately.
Presided over by Sammilita Sangskritik Jote president Golam Kuddus, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University pro-vice-chancellor Sohidullah Shikder, theater activists Ramendu Majumdar and Afzal Hossain, among others, addressed the programme. -</div>