FF seeks PM's help in fight against his eviction move
Staff Correspondent
A freedom fighter crippled in the Liberation War seeks the prime minister's intervention in preventing an influential quarter from evicting him from his government-allocated house.The government in 1988 allocated him a house No. 30 in Purana Paltan in the capital for his contributions to the Liberation War, Manik Ali told The Daily Star yesterday. No-one can claim the house as it was abandoned property, Manik added. "But without any reason the Abandoned Property Management Board on April 26 issued me a seven-day ultimatum to vacate the house," he said. The Ministry of Liberation Welfare has recently assured the freedom fighter that he can stay in house, he said. "But an influential local quarter in connivance with some government officials are trying to evict me." "I sacrificed my eyes and a hand for the country, and now I'm being rewarded with being evicted from my house," Manik said. Manik fought as a junior commander at the Sector No. 4 in Sylhet and lost his eyes and left hand in a mine blast on December 6, 1971.
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