Soon he was doing many portraits of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman . He quit his job to and became a freelance painter . Syful was in all processions and public meetings of Awami League during that period in the 1970s . In 1975 , opposing education ministry and foreign ministry 's approvals - Bangobandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , as President of Bangladesh sent him to Russia with a special fellowship for portrait painting training . The same year he was assassinated . Islam returned to Bangladesh the following year
he was assassinated
Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Syful Islam