National Awami Party (NAP) President Professor Muzaffar Ahmad, a member of the advisory council of the Liberation War-time government, has died at a hospital in Dhaka.
The 97-year old politician, also a close friend of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, breathed his last at the Apollo Hospital in the capital around 7:50pm on Friday.
He was admitted to the hospital on August 14 with old age complications and transferred to intensive care unit five days later.
Muzaffar Ahmad, who was the only living advisor to the wartime government, was born in Debidwar upazila of Cumilla on April 14, 1922. He also took part in the 1952 Language Movement.
He was one of the organisers of NAP, CPB and guerilla force of the student union.
After the independence, Muzaffar was elected a member of parliament in 1979 and contested the 1981 presidential polls.
Three years ago, he declined the government’s offer to receive Swadhinata Padak, the highest civilian award.