Left political leader and author Haider Akbar Khan Rano died at a hospital in Bangladesh capital Dhaka early Saturday.
He was 82.
His family members said that freedom fighter Rano died minutes after 2:00am at Health and Hope Hospital聽 at Panthapath in Dhaka. He was admitted to the hospital with lung disease.
Rano, a leader of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, is survived by a daughter.
Rano was an advisory council member of the CPB and won Bangla Academy Award.
Rano鈥檚 niece AnanyaLaboni told 抖阴精品 that his body would be kept in the Samarita Hospital mortuary.
The CPB leader donated his eye corneas to Sandhani.
Rano was involved in student politics and became general secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra Union.
He was a politburo member of the Workers Party of Bangladesh and left the party when it joined the Awami League-led alliance.
He then joined the CPB and was elected a party adviser.
Workers Party president Rashed Khan Menon, former CPB president Mujahidul Islam Selim, adviser Manzurul Ahsan Khan and other politicians rushed to the hospital after his death.
He was suffering from respiratory problems and was admitted to the hospital a week ago.
Haider Akbar Khan Rano was born at his maternal house in Kolkata on August 31, 1942.
His ancestral village is Barshala in the Narail district.His father Hatem Ali Khan was an engineer.
Rano passed his matriculation examination from Saint Gregory School in Dhaka in 1958 and his intermediate from Notre Dame College in 1960.
He was a brilliant student and admitted to the physics department of Dhaka University but did not complete his degree and later passed a law degree when he was in jail.
He was involved in student politics and became general secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra Union from 1963 to 1965.
He was one of the prominent organisers of the mass movement of 1969 and took part in the War of Independence of 1971.
He organised freedom fighters at Shibpur in Dhaka and then went to India and worked there as an organiser of the war.
He was a close associate of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani.
He bagged the Bangla Academy award for his writings.
He was a Marxist thinker and聽聽聽 author of 25聽聽 books, including an autobiography titled Shatabdi Peria and some other books based on politics of the country.聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
His body will be taken to Central Shaheed Minar on Monday noon after return of his only daughter Rana Sultana and her children from abroad and it will be kept there for an hour at 12 noon for paying last respects to the leader.
Then the body will be kept at the CPB central office from 10:00am to 11:00am, following which the body will be taken to the Dhaka University mosque where his namaz-e-janaza would be held, said a press release.
The body of Haider Akbar Khan Rano will be finally laid to rest in Banani graveyard on Monday beside the grave of his father and mother, the release added.
Different political parties and socio-cultural organisations expressed deep shock at the death of Haider Akbar Khan Rano.
Ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader, main opposition BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir,聽 Jatiya Party chairman Ghulam Muhammad Quader expressed deep shock at the death of Haider Akbar Khan Rano.
Moreover , Workers Party of Bangladesh president Rashed Khan Menon, general secretary Fazle Hossain Badsha, CPB president Mohammad Shah Alam, general secretary Ruhin Hossain Prince, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod president Hasanul Haq Inu, general secretary Shirin Akhter, Nagarik Oikya president Mahmudur Rahman Manna,聽 Socialist Party of Bangladesh general secretary Bazlur Rashid Firoz, SPB (Marxist) coordinator Masud Rana, Revolutionary Workers Party general secretary Saiful Huq, and Bangladesh Juba Moitri in separate condolence messages expressed shock at the death.
Politburo of Workers Party on Saturday held a meeting and expressed deep shock at the death of Haider Akbar Khan Rano and said that his death was an irreparable loss to politics of Bangladesh.聽聽