Golam Gaus Babu, a prominent businessman and elder brother of Golam Khaja Sadi, widely known as G. K. Sadi, died at his residence in Dhaka at around 1:30am on Wednesday. He was 64.
Babu died on Tuesday night, according to family and local sources. (Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un.)
He was the elder brother of G. K. Sadi, a member of the executive committee of the Pabna Press Club, former Pabna district correspondent for Desh TV and the daily Bhorer Kagoj, and proprietor of Khaja Homeo Hall at the Tantiband Cooperative Market.
Babu was unmarried. He is survived by a brother, a sister, a niece and numerous relatives, friends and well-wishers.
His funeral prayer was held after Asr prayers on Wednesday at the Eidgah ground of Shalgaria Graveyard Jame Mosque in Pabna. He was subsequently buried at the family graveyard.
Before the funeral prayer, tributes were delivered on behalf of the family by his younger brother, G. K. Sadi; cousin Kazi Rafiqul Alam; Pabna Press Club President Akhtaruzzaman Akhtar; former president ABM Fazlur Rahman; and former general secretary Akhinur Islam Remon.
Among those present were Pabna Press Club Senior Vice-President Sifat Rahman Sanam, its Literature and Cultural Affairs Secretary Yad Ali Mridha Pavel, former general secretary of Pabna Reporters Unity Kazi Mahbub Moshed Babla, executive member Arif Ahmed Siddiqui, and Faruk Hossain, joint general secretary of the Pabna Motor Owners Group, along with other prominent local residents.
