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Mohammad Ali Reza was born on 7 December 1930 at his maternal home in Sultanpur village of Kushtia district, and he passed away on 12 March 1988. His father was the late Jahur Ali Ahammad of Lahini village, Kushtia district.
In his childhood he began his schooling at the various places of his father's posting. But owing to difficulties, from class seven he stayed in the hostel of Khulna Zilla School and in 1948 passed the matriculation examination in the first division at the same time from both the Dhaka and Calcutta boards. He passed IA from Bagerhat PC College. After passing BA from St. Gregory's College, he did his MA with great distinction, securing first place in the first division, from the University of the Punjab at Lahore [Punjab], Pakistan. He joined the University of the Punjab as a teacher and completed his MPhil.
While studying at Lahore University he was elected VP of the Lahore University. At that time, with a view to changing the condition of the poor, he formed a social-service organisation named SCI [Service Civil International] and was elected its founding president. Through this organisation many social workers from home and abroad carried out a great deal of service work in the then East Pakistan.
Later he obtained an MS degree from Harvard University in England, and afterwards took up a job at the National Institute of Public Administration [NIPA] and worked as chief instructor of NIPA in East Pakistan.
At that time he was arrested, implicated in the historic Agartala Case, and even through inhuman torture no confession of any kind could be extracted from him. In order to join the historic Agartala Case he had to go and make contact and hold discussions with leading politicians abroad. As the Ayub government could not complete the trial of the Agartala Case because of the mass movement, it was compelled to release all the accused from that case.
But afterwards he took up no more government service. He carried on business, and while travelling from Chittagong to Dhaka on business he died suddenly in a first-class compartment of a train. At the time of his death he was 56 years old. As a distinguished son of Kushtia and a prominent freedom fighter, he was honoured posthumously by the greater Kushtia district. Ali Reza's brothers Ali Newaz and Ali Afif were also accused in the Agartala Case.
