Dainikshiksha Desk: Veteran leftist leader and Marxist theorist Haider Akbar Khan Rono passed away at a city hospital early today. He was 82.
Rono, an adviser to the Communist Party of Bangladesh Central Committee, breathed his last at 2:05am while undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit in the capital's Health and Hope Hospital, Ananna Labony Putul, a niece of Rono, confirmed to The Daily Star.
The namaz-e-janaza and the burial of the renowned leftist leader will be informed later, she added.
Rono was born on August 31, 1942, in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata).
A prolific writer, Rono published 25 books and many booklets. He received the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2021.
