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Shamsul Hadi (born February 1952, died 11 May 1975) was one of the greatest freedom fighters of greater Kushtia district. He led the fighting directly in all 12 thanas of Kushtia district and personally took part in more than fifty battles.
Shamsul Hadi was born in old Kushtia in February 1952. His father, Nurul Islam, was imprisoned while a student of class ten for taking part in the Swadeshi movement and so could not continue his studies; later in life he earned his living as a document writer at the registry office. Shamsul Hadi's younger uncle took training as a fighter of the Swadeshi movement under the leadership of Captain Mansur Ali.
Hadi's elder uncle served as a daroga (police sub-inspector) towards the end of the British era. Shamsul Hadi's grandfather, Nazimuddin Sheikh, was a man of philosophical bent. Shamsul Hadi had seven brothers and two sisters. In the great liberation war six of the Hadi brothers took training and personally took part in the liberation war. The eldest brother was in the Pakistan army and was detained in Pakistan during the great liberation war.
While a school student, Shamsul Hadi was made a member of the Nucleus. The Nucleus had 7 members in Kushtia district, and he was one of them. In 1970 he was general secretary of the Kushtia district branch of the Bangladesh Chhatra League and a member of its central committee. He served as convener of the All-Party Student Struggle Council for Kushtia, Meherpur and Chuadanga.
After the first flag of independent Bengal was hoisted at Batatala of Dhaka University on 2 March 1971, on the morning of 3 March Shamsul Hadi's mother hoisted the flag of independent Bengal in Kushtia for the first time with her own hands (this is mentioned in the Kushtia DC Mozaffel Karim's essay on two young men), and she dedicated all six of her sons to the liberation war. On their mother's instructions her sons accepted no privileges or favours. At a huge rally on the field of Kushtia Islamia College, Abdul Jalil, president of the Kushtia district Chhatra League, hoisted the flag of independent Bengal, and Shamsul Hadi read out the declaration of independence.
That same day, on Pakistan Day, 23 March 1971, Hadi hoisted the flag of independent Bengal at the parade of the Joy Bangla force on the field of Kushtia High School. MP Golam Kibria took the salute of the Joy Bangla force, and Marfat Ali presented the salute. During the war the Pakistani marauders razed Hadi's house to the ground with gunpowder, and the Rakshi Bahini broke down his home. Shamsul Hadi founded the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JASOD) in Kushtia and was elected a member of the central committee of the Krishak League.
On 11 May 1975 he was martyred in a frontal battle with the Rakshi Bahini at Chatarpara in Daulatpur thana.
