Liberation War Affairs Adviser Farooq E Azam -File Photo

DHAKA, June 4, 2025 (BSS) - Liberation War Affairs Adviser Farooq E Azam today said the reports of rescinding recognition of freedom fighter status of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and other leaders of Mujibnagar government are not true.

"The newspapers’ reports on revoking the recognition of freedom fighters of more than a hundred leaders, including Mujibnagar government's president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, acting president Syed Nazrul Islam, prime minister Tajuddin Ahmad and two ministers Md. Mansur Ali and AHM Kamruzzaman is untrue," he told the newsman at the Secretariat.

Earlier, several newspapers including Samakal, Jugantar, Ittefaq and Kalerkantha ran misleading news claiming that the recognition of freedom fighters of the president and prime minister of the Mujibnagar government and over a hundred of leaders has been revoked.

Chief Adviser's Press Wing today also called false and misleading the newspapers' reports on canceling the recognition of freedom fighters of the president and prime minister of the Mujibnagar government and over a hundred of leaders. 

"The news published in several newspapers, including Samakal, Jugantar, Ittefaq and Kalerkanth, claiming that the recognition of freedom fighters of more than a hundred leaders, including president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, acting president Syed Nazrul Islam, prime minister Tajuddin Ahmad and two ministers Md. Mansur Ali and AHM Kamruzzaman of the Mujibnagar government, has been cancelled is completely baseless, false and misleading," it said in a facebook post.

The liberation war affairs adviser however said the definition of freedom fighters that was in 1972 was reclaimed by revising the definition being changed in 2018 and 2022.

He said those who were in the Mujibnagar government were also freedom fighters. 

Those who fought in the liberation war with arms, and those who conducted it, were freedom fighters, he said, adding that however, the officials and employees of that government are associate freedom fighters.

Azam said according to the National Freedom Fighters Council (JAMUKA) Ordinance, diplomats, including those involved in Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, are associate freedom fighters and associate does not mean that their honour has been tarnished.

He said the honour, status and benefits of both freedom fighters and associate freedom fighters of the liberation war will remain the same.