Pankaj Bhattacharya, Oikya NAP president and one of the organisers of the country's Liberation War, died at a city hospital on Monday.
The 83-year-old breathed his last at 12:25am at the capital's Health and Hope Hospital.
The veteran politician was admitted to the hospital on April 17. He suffered a cardiac arrest on Saturday morning. He was then put on life support.
Born in August 1939, Pankaj grew up in Noapara of Chattogram's Raozan.
PM mourns
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday expressed profound shock and sorrow at the death of Pankaj Bhattacharya.
In a message of condolence, she prayed for the salvation of his departed soul and conveyed deep sympathy to the bereaved family.
