Today is the first anniversary of the death of left politician and author Haider Akbar Khan Rano.
On this day past year he died at a city hospital after suffering from lung diseases at the age of 82.
He 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.
CPB president Mohammad Shah Alam and general secretary Ruhin Hossain Prince on Saturday in a press statement said that the death of Haider Akbar Khan Rano was an irreparable loss to the politics of the country.
Haider Akbar Khan Rano was born at his maternal house in Kolkata on August 31, 1942.
His ancestral village is Barshala in Narail. 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 obtained 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. To mark the day, family members of Rano will place floral wreaths at his grave in the Banani graveyard at 8:00am and a commemoration meeting will be held at Syed Waliullah Auditorium in Bangla Academy at 4:30pm.聽聽聽
