Hasina to pay last respects to Jyoti Basu
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina flies to Kolkata today (Tuesday) morning by an air-force plane to pay her last respects to legendary communist leader and former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, reports UNB.
The Prime Minister is likely to be accompanied by Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad MP, Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon MP, JSD President HasanuL Haq Inu MP, Samyabadi Dal President and Industries Minister Dilip Barua, Awami League General Secretary and LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif and columnist Baby Moudud.
Hasina will return home in the afternoon after paying homage to the political patriarch, whose death Sunday sent a shockwave through the subcontinent.
Meanwhile, another report released on Internet adds: Doctors and staff of the Anatomy department of the Indian state-run SSKM Hospital have been making preparations to receive the body of Jyoti Basu Tuesday.
Health minister Suryakanta Mishra called a meeting on Monday at the hospital with doctors and officials of the anatomy department and the Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research (IPGMER).
"Basu's body will be used for medical study and research by students and research fellows," doctors at the hospital said, declining to give further details.
"As a communist, I am pledged to serve humanity until my last breath. I am happy now I will continue to serve even after my death," Mr Basu had written while pledging to donate his body at a function organised in 2003 by 'Ganadarpan', an NGO.
Mr Basu had also pledged his eyes, which were removed after his death Sunday by doctors of Sushrut Eye Foundation at Salt Lake.
"Basu's corneas have been kept for the Muktakeshi Eye Foundation," CPI(M) sources said.
CPI(M) leader and former land and land revenue minister Benoy Krishna Chowdhury and former State CPI(M) secretary Anil Biswas had also donated their bodies after death.
The Prime Minister is likely to be accompanied by Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad MP, Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon MP, JSD President HasanuL Haq Inu MP, Samyabadi Dal President and Industries Minister Dilip Barua, Awami League General Secretary and LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif and columnist Baby Moudud.
Hasina will return home in the afternoon after paying homage to the political patriarch, whose death Sunday sent a shockwave through the subcontinent.
Meanwhile, another report released on Internet adds: Doctors and staff of the Anatomy department of the Indian state-run SSKM Hospital have been making preparations to receive the body of Jyoti Basu Tuesday.
Health minister Suryakanta Mishra called a meeting on Monday at the hospital with doctors and officials of the anatomy department and the Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research (IPGMER).
"Basu's body will be used for medical study and research by students and research fellows," doctors at the hospital said, declining to give further details.
"As a communist, I am pledged to serve humanity until my last breath. I am happy now I will continue to serve even after my death," Mr Basu had written while pledging to donate his body at a function organised in 2003 by 'Ganadarpan', an NGO.
Mr Basu had also pledged his eyes, which were removed after his death Sunday by doctors of Sushrut Eye Foundation at Salt Lake.
"Basu's corneas have been kept for the Muktakeshi Eye Foundation," CPI(M) sources said.
CPI(M) leader and former land and land revenue minister Benoy Krishna Chowdhury and former State CPI(M) secretary Anil Biswas had also donated their bodies after death.