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Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar said that the current trend of traditional media will change completely in the future due to the continuation of digital transformation. With the advancement of digital technology, finding information from paper magazines will not prevail in the coming days. Already, the need for news updates every moment is becoming essential to the reader. The once audio, print and TV based media is now proliferating through internet based media as well as social media. And this situation is a big challenge not only for society and the state, but also for newspapers and journalists.

He said this while speaking as the chief guest at the commemoration of the deceased journalist of Greater Mymensingh organized by the Greater Mymensingh Journalists Association at the National Press Club on Monday.

Greater Mymensingh Journalists Association-Dhaka President Molla Jalal presided over the event as special guest speech by State Minister for Culture KM Khalid. Apart from this, cultural secretary of Awami League Asim Kumar Ukil, Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh Agricultural University Professor Dr. Lutful Hasan, former senior secretary Abdus Samad, journalist leader Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul, Quddus Afrad, journalist Faizus Saleheen, Yusuf Sharif and others. General Secretary of Greater Mymensingh Journalists Association Uday Hakim moderated the program.

Post and Telecommunication Minister pointed out that journalism has changed after independence and said that Bangabandhu respected journalists. He has played an incredible role in the development of journalism in the country. Even though there were differences of opinions and paths among the post-independence journalists, everyone was uncompromising in the interests of journalism.

Mustafa Jabbar, the former organizing secretary of Undivided Dhaka Journalists’ Union, said, “When I started journalism after the Liberation War after independence, entry of young journalists without five years of journalistic experience was strictly prohibited in the National Press Club. We force that rule to change. I was able to establish a press club of young journalists by creating a new constitution.

He said that the soil of greater Mymensingh is not only fertile, but the contribution of the people of this region in journalism, art and literature is very significant. I feel blessed as a person of greater Mymensingh to be able to contribute to this nation to some extent after studying in college and university in the mud capital capital.

Late Abul Kalam Shamsuddin, Abul Mansoor Ahmed, Mujibur Rahman Khan, Khondkar Abdul Hamid, Syed Nuruddin, Hasan Hafizur Rahman, Mir Nurul Islam, Ataus Samad, Rahat Khan, Asaf Uddaula, Bazlur Rahman, Fakir Ashraf, Rafiq Azad, Shafiul as ministers and journalists. Haque highlighted the contribution of others. He urged the new generation of journalists to study their biographies and writings to develop their talents.

State Minister for Culture KM Khalid said that the role of journalists from greater Mymensingh in the journalism world of Bangladesh is unforgettable. Eminent journalists like Abul Mansoor Ahmed, Hasan Hafizur Rahman, Rahat Khan, Rafiq Azad were born in this region.

Referring to his closeness and good relationship with the journalists, he said that the current era is the era of propaganda. And in this case, journalists play a key role. The state minister expressed hope that the journalists will publish the news of the country’s art, literature and culture in addition to the mainstream news.

KM Khalid said, traditional Mymensingh district was established on May 1, 1787. The city of Mymensingh was founded in 1811 and the land for the city was given by Raghunandan Acharya, the zamindar of my constituency, Muktagacha. Apart from that the zamindars of Muktagacha patronized almost all the educational institutions of Mymensingh city including Anand Mohan College. Considering that since the prehistoric times, Muktagacha has a close and inseparable relationship with Mymensingh.

Asim Kumar, a lawyer, highlighted his journalistic life experience in Daily Bangla’s Bani newspaper and said, “I have learned a lot from journalism.”

Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul said, journalists have an opportunity to make an extraordinary contribution at the national level if they can build themselves on the principles of the deceased.

In the President’s speech, Molla Jalal said that the memorable people of Greater Mymensingh played a leading role in the development and establishment of journalism in the entire Bengal of British India. He said, Greater Mymensingh is a fertile town of creativity in art, literature and journalism.

Later, the 236th anniversary of the establishment of Mymensingh district was celebrated by cutting the cake.