After fighting for his life for six days, Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesperson for Inqilab Moncho, passed away on Thursday night.
In a Facebook post around 9:40pm, Inqilab Moncho first announced the death. "In the struggle against Indian hegemony, Allah has accepted the great revolutionary Osman Hadi as a martyr."
An aspiring independent candidate for Dhaka-8, Hadi was shot on December 12 while he was on a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Dhaka's Paltan area. He was first taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and later moved to Evercare Hospital as his condition deteriorated.
Last Saturday, he was airlifted to Singapore for advanced treatment.
Earlier in the day, Inqilab Moncho had said Hadi was now at a crossroads of life and death, adding that his family has given consent for his surgery to be conducted in Singapore.
Warning of a sit-in in Shahbagh until the attackers are arrested, the platform said, "If Osman Hadi responds to the call of his Creator and joins the ranks of martyrs, the oppressed and freedom-seeking people of Bangladesh are requested to gather at Shahbagh to ensure sovereignty," adding that they will bring the country to standstill until the demand is met.
"If the killer flees to India, they must be arrested and brought back at any cost through discussions with the Indian government."
On Wednesday night, Singapore's Foreign Minister Dr Vivian Balakrishnan called Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus after visiting Hadi in hospital and described his health condition as "extremely critical", the Chief Adviser's Press Wing said.