Relatives of known Tajik statesman are indignant at the fact of reburial of him without informing them.
Grandchildren of Jabbor Rasoulov, who was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan between April 12, 1961 and February 1982, knew about reburial of their grandfather through media and were indignant because no one of his three children and four grandchildren had been informed of that.
According to his outraged grandchildren, they intend to file lawsuit against the Dushanbe mayor’s office for reburial of Rasoulov without informing his relatives and asking for their consent.
“May be we will carry the grandfather’s mortal remains to Moscow,” Rasoulov’s granddaughter Irina Tikhonova noted on her Facebook page.
Earlier, relatives of other persons who had been reburied without informing them had also expressed indignation.
Several known Tajik scientists, poets and public figures were buried in Sadriddin Ayni Park, including Sadriddin Ayni, Boqi Rahimzoda, Muhammad Osimi, Kamol Ayni, Muqaddima Ashrafi, Jabbor Rasoulov and Bobojon Ghafourov.
Except of mortal remains Sadriddin Ayni, mortal remains of others have been reburied in another cemetery in connection with the reconstruction of the park.
Jabbor Rasoulov (July 10, 1913 – April 4, 1982) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan between April 12, 1961 and February 1982.
He was born on July 10, 1913 in the city of Khujand, Samarqand Region (now Tajikistan) to a working-class family. In 1934, Jabbor Rasoulov graduated from the Central Asian Cotton Institute. From 1934 to 1938, he worked at an agricultural station.
He was the head of Department, Deputy People's Commissar of Agriculture of the Tajik SSR from 1938 to 1941. Later, he served as the Commissioner of Agriculture of People's Commissariat for the USSR on Tajik SSR. In 1946, he was appointed as Tajik SSR Minister of Industrial Crops and later as Soviet Ambassador to Togo (1960-1961).
He died in 1982 and was buried in Dushanbe.
