Matia Chowdhury is an influential name among Bangladeshi women politicians. She is called 'Agnikanya' in the political arena. As president of the student union, her fiery speeches in the anti-Ayub movement made her a firebrand.

He was born on June 30, 1942 in Pirojpur. His father Mohiuddin Ahmed Chowdhury was a police officer and mother Nurjahan Begum was a housewife. On June 18, 1964, famous journalist Matia Chowdhury got married to Bajlur Rahman, a son of Ganapaddi area of ​​Nakla upazila of Sherpur. He got involved in student politics while studying at Eden College.

He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in the capital on Wednesday. His burial has also been completed. Many have been written about his death, the news has also been published a lot.

Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam has criticized the news circulating around him. He criticized this in a status given on his verified Facebook page on Friday.

Shafiqul Alam wrote, "The country's leading newspapers have honored Matia Chowdhury by bringing forward the important events of his long life. But instead of dispassionate obituaries, they were mostly general eulogies, as if a murid were writing about his pir.'

He writes, 'It is clear that we grew up reading many Sufi tajkis especially the Tajkiratul Auliya and the Tajkiratul Ambiya.'

The press secretary wrote, 'There is no doubt about his role as the student union leader in 1960. He has also played a role in some of the most glorious chapters of our history. For example, from the student movement during the Ayub Khan period to the liberation war in 1971 and later the anti-military movement of the eighties. An elegiac writer must touch on these events.'

He further wrote, 'But you (the media) underestimated her role in Sheikh Hasina's dictatorship, how she demonized the student movement and how she became part of a fascist regime. You have brought forward the fact that the movement to establish democracy that has been going on for the last 15 years is getting less importance. The way he hails the most corrupt dictator in history, you are actually legitimizing it.'

Also wrote, 'It is very sad that even after ages our newspapers have failed to grasp the art of writing obituaries. Or they support the Islamic practice of not criticizing the dead.'