Zia's place of birth

If you carefully read the above you will be curious to ask questions like these, where, since when and finally when at the end of some sentences. You will definitely want to know when the parents of Zia migrated to Bogra to reside there permanently, before partition (1947) or after? Had he had his formal education at Kolkata as a resident of Bogra or Jalpaiguri? Please note that Zia was born in 1936. Doesn't this call his place of birth as Bogra in question? I would not have insisted on the question of his birthplace had it not been written as Bogra (Bagbari) in the compulsory reading of students at primary and secondary levels. And that too is couched in florid descriptions. Then why a sort of quibbling was resorted to in the life sketch sponsored/authored by the government itself in respect of his birthplace.? Ziaur Rahman was one of our great freedom fighters and presidents. So he occupies a very important place in the annals of our history, which must include his antecedents with complete fidelity, and the young learners must not be baffled with this.

I remember having read a letter in this column about two years back where the writer claimed that Zia was born in a village in Jalpaiguri (the name of the village too was quoted) and he had invited others to refute his claim. I did not read any letter nullifying his claim, even from any of his brothers (if the letter did not escape their attention). It makes no difference where one was born and where one achieved greatness. So skipping Bogra as his birthplace is starkly elusive.