Left politician and author Haider Akbar Khan Rano worked for social changes, an educationist and political leaders said at a commemoration meeting on the first anniversary of his death on Sunday.
The event was organised by Rano鈥檚 family at Syed Waliullah auditorium in Bangla Academy and the event was chaired by Dhaka University professor emeritus and educationist Serajul Islam Choudhury.
Rano died on May 11 in 2024 in Dhaka at the age of 82.
Former Communist Party of Bangladesh president Mujahidul Islam Selim, former assistant general secretary of the erstwhile East Pakistan Students鈥� Union Deepa Dutta and Moulana Bhasani Parishad general secretary Harunur Rashid spoke at the event which was moderated by CPB leader Abdullah Al Kafi Ratan.
Deepa said that Haider Akbar Khan Rano welcomed all people without any hesitation irrespective of their political positions.
The Kagmari Conference in 1957, the council meeting of the Awami League and a cultural conference which encouraged him to join politics and his comradeship with Rashed Khan Menon created a huge impact on student politics as well as in the national political movement, said Deepa.
Mujahidul Islam Selim said that Rano was not only a theorist, but he applied his learning in his political career as a political worker and leader.
鈥楬e was aware and worked for a platform which would unite the communists in the country. He has also participated in many international communist conferences,鈥� Mujahidul said, adding that reform should be led by working class people otherwise it would serve the capitalist interests, which would never change people鈥檚 fate.
Serajul Islam Choudhury said that Rano was a revolutionary who worked for social changes.
鈥極ur revolution should be for humanity, which disappeared not in Bangladesh, but also across the world because of capitalism creating genocides in different manners across the globe,鈥� he said, adding that the world needed a socialist revolution, not in any specific country but across the globe.
Rano was buried in Banani graveyard beside graves of his parents. He was an advisory committee member of the Communist Party of Bangladesh until his death.
