The Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh president, Khandakar Ali Abbas, died of cancer infections at the age of sixty-six at Delta Cancer Hospital in the capital on Wednesday afternoon.
He is survived by his wife and two sons.
He was suffering from cancer for last one and half years.
Khandakar Ali Abbas joined left politics more than 50 years ago, worked especially with the farmers and played role in organising movements in different periods and during Liberation War in 1971.
Earlier, he worked with Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal (M-L) and Workers Party.
The body of the left leader was kept in mortuary of the BIRDEM Hospital.
The RWPB general secretary, Saiful Huq, on behalf of the central committee expresses deep shock at the death of Ali Abbas.
The body will be taken to his village home at Nababganj in Dohar today for burial.
The Communist Party of Bangladesh, Ganasanghati Andolan, Democratic Revolutionary Party, Communist League of Bangladesh and Ganasagskiti Front leaders in separate press statements expressed deep shock at the death and said his role in the left politics of the country will be remembered.
His body will be laid in state in the Central Shaheed Minar on Thursday from 11:00am to 12 noon, a party press statement said.
Source : New Age
