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Published : 16 Jan 2026, 05:45 PM
Hajera Sultana, a former member of parliament, freedom fighter and senior leader of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, has died at the age of 76.
She passed away on Thursday night while receiving treatment at City Hospital in Dhaka's Mohammadpur, party officials said.
Hajera was a member of the party’s politburo and is survived by her only daughter, who lives in Canada, and a son-in-law.
According to Workers Party central committee leader Mostafa Alamgir Ratan, her body will be kept at a private hospital mortuary before burial in her ancestral village in Tangail once her daughter returns to Bangladesh.
Born in 1950 in Chhatihati village in Tangail’s Kalihati Upazila, Hajera became politically active while studying at Government Sa’adat College after completing her higher secondary education at Kumudini College.
In 1970, she served as president of the Tangail district unit of the Revolutionary Students’ Union and was a member of its central committee. In March 1971, an arrest warrant was issued against her after she took part in burning the Pakistani flag in Tangail.
During Bangladesh’s Liberation War, she joined an armed group formed by communist revolutionaries in the Jamunachar area under the leadership of commander Abdul Halim, also known as Iqbal, and received training before taking part in the fighting.
After independence, Hajera remained active in politics and the women’s movement. She later served as president of the Bangladesh Women’s Liberation Council and was at one time editor of the Workers Party’s weekly publication Notun Kotha.
Leaders of the Workers Party expressed condolences following her death, describing her as a committed political activist and freedom fighter.
Her coffin is due to be taken to the party’s office on Topkhana Road at 10am on Sunday, where party members are expected to pay their respects.
