SILCHAR, April 2: Even after his death, Abul Fazal Golam Osmani remains a symbol of uneasiness for the Congress, the party he had been representing in the Lok Sabha for the last 10 years. Raja Wajed Osmani, elder son of the Congress MP, who breathed his last on Tuesday in Delhi after prolonged terminal disease had turned down the offer of the Silchar district Congress to bring the mortal remains of the leader to the party office before he was put to rest at his ancestral home in Buribile under Barkhola.
The entire family wore a cold impression towards the Congress leaders like district president Karnendu Bhattacharjee, Parliamentary Affairs Secretary Ajit Singh who paid floral tributes on behalf of the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi with whom Osmani’s enmity was open and direct.
However, Osmani’s family received Union Minister and Congress candidate Sontosh Mohan Dev with due respect while the latter visited Wajid Manjil, the house of Osmani at Water Works Road of Silchar town. Dev, after a hectic schedule throughout the day, went to Osmani’s residence at night and assured Raja Wajid of all sorts of co-operation.
Osmani’s mortal remains were first taken to the Itkhola Idgah today morning for janana namaz (a special namaz for the departed soul). Later the body was taken to Buribile where thousands of local people assembled to pay last tributes to Osmani.
Osmani, in spite of being a Congress MP, was a hard-core critic of Tarun Gogoi whom he described as the enemy of the Muslims of Asom as the Congress Government failed to rehabilitate thousands of victims of anti Muslim riots in Barpeta and Kokrajhar.
Osmani raised demand for removal of Gogoi but ultimately he found himself dethroned from the post of state chief of Congress Minority Department which was later usurped by former State Minister Misbahul Islam Laskar, an arch rival of Osmani. Dev played a vital role in this change-over.
Osmani cast his vote in favour of the government but Gogoi took no time to forget his promise. By this time Osmani was terminally ill with abdomen cancer. His family now reportedly alleged that once the name of candidate was declared and Wajed Raja did not figure in the list, Osmani’s heath started to deteriorate rapidly.
In his home town too, Osmani was never given due respect. He didn’t even spare Dev, whom he called a manage master. Meanwhile, AUDF also found themselves in an uneasy position as the advisor of the party as well as an influential Islamic cleric Moulana Tayyubur Rahman had in a statement addressed Osmani as the champion of minority causes in the state and said Osmani’s death had left a irreparable void for the minorities. Osmani was a vociferous critic of AUDF boss Badraudden Ajmal, whom he declared as a mere businessman. THE SENTINEL
The entire family wore a cold impression towards the Congress leaders like district president Karnendu Bhattacharjee, Parliamentary Affairs Secretary Ajit Singh who paid floral tributes on behalf of the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi with whom Osmani’s enmity was open and direct.
However, Osmani’s family received Union Minister and Congress candidate Sontosh Mohan Dev with due respect while the latter visited Wajid Manjil, the house of Osmani at Water Works Road of Silchar town. Dev, after a hectic schedule throughout the day, went to Osmani’s residence at night and assured Raja Wajid of all sorts of co-operation.
Osmani’s mortal remains were first taken to the Itkhola Idgah today morning for janana namaz (a special namaz for the departed soul). Later the body was taken to Buribile where thousands of local people assembled to pay last tributes to Osmani.
Osmani, in spite of being a Congress MP, was a hard-core critic of Tarun Gogoi whom he described as the enemy of the Muslims of Asom as the Congress Government failed to rehabilitate thousands of victims of anti Muslim riots in Barpeta and Kokrajhar.
Osmani raised demand for removal of Gogoi but ultimately he found himself dethroned from the post of state chief of Congress Minority Department which was later usurped by former State Minister Misbahul Islam Laskar, an arch rival of Osmani. Dev played a vital role in this change-over.
Osmani cast his vote in favour of the government but Gogoi took no time to forget his promise. By this time Osmani was terminally ill with abdomen cancer. His family now reportedly alleged that once the name of candidate was declared and Wajed Raja did not figure in the list, Osmani’s heath started to deteriorate rapidly.
In his home town too, Osmani was never given due respect. He didn’t even spare Dev, whom he called a manage master. Meanwhile, AUDF also found themselves in an uneasy position as the advisor of the party as well as an influential Islamic cleric Moulana Tayyubur Rahman had in a statement addressed Osmani as the champion of minority causes in the state and said Osmani’s death had left a irreparable void for the minorities. Osmani was a vociferous critic of AUDF boss Badraudden Ajmal, whom he declared as a mere businessman. THE SENTINEL
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