Veteran politician Serajul Alam Khan passes away
Veteran politician Serajul Alam Khan passed away today while undergoing treatment at a city hospital.
He breathed his last at 2:30pm Friday (9 June) while on life support at the intensive care unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, DMCH Director Brig Gen Nazmul Haque told The Business Standard.
Serajul Alam Khan was born on 6 January 1941 in Noakhali. He graduated from Khulna Zilla School in 1956 and Dhaka College in 1958. He studied mathmatics at the University of Dhaka from 1958 to 1962.
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He started politics while he was in Dhaka College. He was a student of science subjects in the college. His extra-curriculum activities in the college brought him in the lime light of future inherent leadership. He served as the general secretary of East Pakistan Chhatra League from 1963 to 1965.
In 1971, just after the independence of Bangladesh Serajul Alam Khan with his vast practical experiences as political activist engaged himself in the "theoretical work" of political science. In this process, he became a visiting professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, US in 1996.
Quite a few original ideas on politico-administrative models have derived from his books and lectures, which he did in collaboration with Prof Zillur R Khan, a distinguished and prominent political scientist, ex-chair and presently Rose-bush Professor in the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, US.
Some other brilliant economic developmental models for Bangladesh also came from Serajul Alam Khan with the help of Prof Razia Ahmed (BUET) and Mohiuddin Ahmed (researcher and writer).
His political associates and friends generally call Serajul Alam Khan as "Dada" or "Dadabhai". Of late, his politico-economic-administrative models have been termed as "SAK Model".
