The rickshaw carrying the body of Ghulam Nafiz, a martyr in the anti-discrimination movement, will be kept as a memorial at the July Uprising Memorial Museum. Post, Telecommunication and Information Technology Adviser Md. Nahid Islam said this when he came to see the rickshaw carrying Nafiz’s body at Ganabhaban on Thursday (07 November 2024 AD)

While handing over the rickshaw at Ganabhaban, the adviser thanked the rickshaw puller Noor Mohammad for his bravery and assured financial assistance.

In view of the news published in a daily newspaper on 5th November, ‘Nuri has sold the rickshaw where the frozen body of Nafiz was lying’, Adviser Nahid Islam directed the officers of his office to immediately find the rickshaw and the rickshaw driver. According to the advisor’s instructions, when the rickshaw driver Noor Mohammad alias Nuru was contacted, he said that he sold it (rickshaw) to London resident Ahsanul Kabir Siddiqui Kaiser for Tk 35,000.

When contacted later, he expressed his desire to hand over the rickshaw to the July Uprising Memorial Museum. Accordingly today the rickshaw was handed over to Special Assistant to Joint Convener and Chief Adviser of July Uprising Memorial Museum Md. Mahfuz Alam.

It is to be noted that Golam Nafiz, a student of Banani Vidyaniketan School and College, was shot dead under the pedestrian-bridge of Farmgate on August 4 at around 4:30 pm during the anti-discrimination student movement. When the police put the shot Nafiz on the foot of the rickshaw, he was still holding the rickshaw rod with his hands.

The rickshaw puller took him to the hospital but he did not survive. Later, the picture of this rickshaw made the whole Bangladesh cry.