Nizamuddin Motin, a whole time revolutionary and peasant leader, died at a hospital in Dhaka on Sunday after suffering from prolonged illness.
The breathed his last at 10am, said Munir Morshed, a writer and a researcher.
Nizamuddin was born at Alekanda in Barisal in 1955. He joined Purbobanglar Sormik Andolon, led by Siraj Shikder, in 1969.
After the Pakistani military launched "Operation Searchlight" against the people of the then East Pakistan on the night of 25 March, 1971, Nizamuddin and Tipu Biswas--now the leader of Jatiya Gana Front--attacked Sathia police station and triggered the war against the Pakistani occupation.
In 1975, he was arrested as a peasant leader and got freed in 1986.
As a communist leader, he had been working to free the poor peasants and workers for five decades.
