Dhaka, Dec. 19 -- Prominent July Uprising figure, and spokesperson of the right-wing Inqilab Moncho, Sharif Osman Hadi, died on Thursday night in a Singapore hospital after being in critical condition for several days, following a gunshot wound to the head.
Inquilab Moncho announced the death in a Facebook post: "In the struggle against Indian hegemony, Allah has accepted the great revolutionary Osman Hadi as a martyr."Hadi - known for his virulent anti-India remarks, was running as an independent candidate for the Dhaka-8 constituency, when he was shot on December 12 while travelling in a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Dhaka's Paltan area. He was fired at from close range by a motor-cycle borne assailant, and the bullet struck him in the he...