Veteran left politician, author and Jatiya Mukti Council president Badruddin Umar died in a hospital in Dhaka on Sunday.
He was 93.
Jatiya Mukti Council secretary Faiezul Hakim said that Badruddin fell sick in his Mirpur home in the morning and was rushed to Bangladesh Specialized Hospital, where doctors declared him dead at about 10:05am.
He left his wife, two daughters and a son to mourn his death.
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman, and different political and socio-cultural organisations expressed deep shock at the death of the veteran politician.
Badruddin鈥檚 body will be kept at the Central Shaheed Minar on the Dhaka University campus at 10:00am today to show the last respect to him.
His body will then be taken to Dhaka University Central Mosque, where his namaj-e-janaza will be held. The body will be buried beside the graves of his parents in the city鈥檚 Jurain graveyard, party leaders said.
He was suffering from respiratory problems and was sick for more than a month, Faiezul Hakim said.
Badruddin Umar was born on December 20, 1931 in Bardhaman in West Bengal of the then British India.
He completed his master鈥檚 degree in philosophy from Dhaka University and studied at Oxford University, and joined Dhaka University as a part-time teacher.
In 1963, when political science department was opened in Rajshahi University, he joined the department as a teacher.聽
He resigned from the teaching profession and joined politics in 1968.
As a Marxist-Leninist thinker, he started practicing left politics and tried to establish a society free from repression and oppression.
He formed the Jatiya Mukti Council and the Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir and continued its publication 鈥楽anskriti鈥� as a monthly regularly.
His father, Abul Hashim, was also a prominent politician in the Indian subcontinent.
Badruddin wrote more than one hundred books, including three volumes of Purba Banglar Bhasha Andoaln O Tatkalin Rajniti, two volumes of 鈥楾he emergence of Bangladesh鈥� and Sanskritir Sankat.
His name was announced for various awards, including Swadhinata Padak in 2025, for his writings but he accepted none in his life.
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, in his condolence message, said that the country had lost a prominent citizen who contributed much to the politics and literature.
BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, in his condolence message, said that the country has lost a progressive politician and writer with the death of Badruddin Umar.
The Jatiya Mukti Council, the Communist Party of Bangladesh, the Ganosamhati Andolan, the National Citizen Party, the National Democratic Front, the Socialist Party of Bangladesh, the 聽SPB (Marxist), the Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh, the Revolutionary Communist League, and the Bangladesh Lekhakak Shibir, in separate condolence messages, expressed deep shock at the death of Badruddin Umar.
