10 Supreme Court lawyers on Tuesday served a legal notice to the government asking it to publish a gazette notification to formally declare Kazi Nazrul Islam as the national poet of Bangladesh.
‘Though people had been calling Kazi Nazrul Islam as the national poet of Bangladesh, the state has yet to recognise him as the national poet of our country through publication of a gazette to this effect,’ the legal notice said.
The legal notice was served to the secretary of culture, the director general of the Bangla Academy and the executive director of Kabi Nazrul Institute through registered post, and asked them to take initiative for publication of the gazette within seven days.
The notice said that members of Kazi Nazrul’s family and Kabi Nazrul Institute had long been demanding that the state recognition of Kazi Nazrul by publishing a gazette to officially announce him as the national poet of Bangladesh.
One of the notice sender lawyers, Md Asad Uddin, said in the notice that a writ petition would be filed with the High Court seeking directive to the respondents for publishing the gazette if they failed to publish the gazette.
The other notice sender lawyers are — Muhammad Misbah Uddin, Md Zobaidur Rahman, Al Reza Md Amir, Md Rezaul Islam, KM Mamun-Or-Rashid, Md Asraful Islam, Shahinur Rahman Shahin, Md Rezaul Karim and Md Alauddin.
