The body of Pankaj Bhattacharya will be taken to Central Shaheed Minar here on Tuesday for the public to pay last tributes to the veteran politician who died at the age of 83, his family sources said.
The public homage to one of the organisers of the 1971 War of Liberation will be paid from 10 am to 12 noon before he is cremated at Postogola Crematorium in Dhaka, said a family member.
Pankaj breathed his last early hours of Monday at Health and Hope Hospital in Dhaka. He has been suffering from old age ailments, including breathing complications. He was put on life support on Saturday after his condition deteriorated.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday expressed condolence at the death of Pankaj, who was the president of Oikya NAP until the last day.
Pankaj was born in Noapara village of Raozan upazila in Chottogram district in 1939. He had been active in the democratic political movement since his school days. He had been an active participant in all democratic movements of the country during the 60s leading to the Liberation War in 1971.
