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Among the oldest and traditional families of Kushtia, the family of Khondokar Lutfel Haque is one. Khondokar Lutfel Haque was one of the greatest practitioners of classical music and an artist of high calibre. He was a social worker. He himself bore the burden of poor and meritorious students' education and arranged for them to stay and eat at his own home. He was a man of progressive thinking and a free mind. He loved culturally minded people very much and brought up his own children in the same mould.
In the great Liberation War everyone in his family was involved; especially his son Aminul Haque Badsha, staying by Bangabandhu's side, prepared the countrymen in favour of the Liberation War.
Aminul Haque was a handsome man. In his student life he was directly involved in politics. In 1962 he led in Kushtia the movement to scrap the Hamidur Rahman Education Commission. In the 1964 election he led Kushtia against the dictator Ayub Khan. Aminul Haque Badsha was a member of the Nucleus.
In 1962 he was GS of the students' parliament of Kushtia Government College and was organisational secretary of the central committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League. He was GS of Iqbal Hall in 1964.
Aminul Haque Badsha is gifted with many qualities — a fine writer, litterateur, journalist, columnist. Khondokar Lutfel Haque's son Raju Ahmed was a soldier of sound and a soldier of language in the great Liberation War of 1971. The Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra (Free Bengal Radio Station) was established through his efforts. He was one of the finest actors of the play 'Jallader Darbar', a play that shook the whole world. Khondokar Lutfel Haque's son Manna Haque was a singer of Swadhin Bangla Betar. Khondokar Lutfel Haque's son Selim, with higher training, actively participated in the Liberation War. Khondokar Lutfel Haque passed away on Monday, 24 April 1965. His wife Sakhina Begum passed away on 15 August 1992.
Family lineage:-
Khondokar Lutfel Haque's forebears came to this country about 500 years ago from Kotdeb in the Middle East to preach religion and settled in the Bagha area of Rajshahi. From there they migrated again to Bosundia in Jessore. The pir, fakir and religious preacher Khondokar Mahamud Ali came to preach religion in the Battoil village of Kushtia. The jotdar of Battoil was drawn to him, married his daughter to him and kept him in his house as a son-in-law. Khondokar Mahbub Ali's son was Khondokar Mahatab Uddin. Khondokar Mahatab Uddin was nazir of the Krishnanagar court and retired while serving in the Meherpur court. Khondokar Mahatab Uddin's three sons — Dr Khondokar Fazlul Haque, Khondokar Lutfel Haque (mokhtar) and Khondokar Abdul Haque — were employed in the Calcutta police. Khondokar Lutfel Haque was a student of the famous music practitioner Nogen Datta and was an artist of high calibre.
Khondokar Lutfel Haque's eldest child, Chopla, died in childhood. His son Khondokar Masudul Haque is known as film actor Raju Ahmed. Then Khondokar Aminul Haque Badsha, Khondokar Rashedul Haque Naba, Khondokar Emdadul Haque Manna, Khondokar Enamul Haque Tipu, Khondokar Obaidul Haque Selim, Khondokar Samsul Haque Lalim, Khondokar Kamrul Haque Shamim, Khondokar Nurul Haque Nasim, and the youngest daughter Nadira Banu Kalpona.
Raju Ahmed's three sons — Ujjwal lives in Manila, while Kollol and Utpal live in America. Raju Ahmed was brutally killed by attackers on 11 December 1972, after independence. Aminul Haque Badsha and his two sons Arif and Akil live in London. Khondokar Rashedul Haque Naba retired as a secretary. His son Shuvo lives in America; his daughter Swarna is a teacher and another daughter, Tina, is a doctor. Khondokar Emdadul Haque Manna with his son Pritom and one daughter, Madhobi, lives in London; his elder daughter Shawli lives in Spain. Khondokar Emdadul Haque Tipu's two daughters are Srabonti and Tanni, and his son is Fardin. Shamim's son is Ador and daughter Fariha. Nasim's daughter is Nikhita. Kalpona's daughters are Dipta and Nomrata. Khondokar Selim's son Songit works in America. Khondokar Lalim's son Arif is a student of fine arts.
