Oli Ahad breathed his last at Samorita Hospital in the city at about 9:15am.
Hospital sources said he was admitted to the hospital on October 8 with various complications.
He left behind a daughter, a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death.
Ahad was born at Islampur village in Brahmanbaria district.
In 1944, he passed matriculation from Daudkandi Government Aided High School.
He met with Khawaja Nazimuddin to discuss about language proposal on January 8, 1948. Later, he became a member of the committee in the same year that organised a hartal on March 12, demanding Bangla as the state language.
Earlier, he was also nominated a member of Muslim Chhatra League. While picketing in front of the secretariat, he was attacked and arrested along with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Khaleque Nawaz Khan and Shamsul Haque.
Ahad was present at the historical meeting that took place at the Amtala of Dhaka University on February 21, 1952.
He organised the agitated students and called for nationwide hartal on the next day from a rally led by him.
Ahad also served as the editor of the weekly Ittehad. He was also the chairman of a political party named Democratic League.
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