Cabbie Shajedur Rahman toiled seven days a week while working toward a master's degree - but now, the Bangladeshi immigrant can't talk, walk or seemingly even comprehend the most basic of communications.

Exactly two years ago today, Rahman, 37, the father of three girls, suffered severe brain damage in an apparent road-rage attack.

Every day since then, his wife has been at his side at a Roosevelt Island nursing home praying for a miraculous recovery - and for some justice.

"I stopped counting the days a long time ago," Shahida Rahman said last night at Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital & Nursing Facility. "Every day is the same day. I just pray to my God that one day he will give him back to me."

Police have been unable to make an arrest, Shahida Rahman said.

Police could not provide an update last night, but Shahida Rahman and the Taxi Workers Alliance said Shajedur Rahman, a part-time cabbie and a full-time restaurant manager, double-parked his cab on 96th St. near First Ave. to get a cup of coffee. When he returned, two men emerged from a van. An argument ensued, and one of the men punched Rahman. He fell and his head slammed into the pavement.

Police reportedly suspect Rahman had cut the van off moments before the assault. TWA Executive Director Bhairavi Desai said others were seen in the van.

"There's several people … who know what happened and who did it," Desai said. "They should have the human decency to come forward."

Members of the drivers' group will hold a bedside vigil today along with Shahida Rahman, whom hospital staff have urged to "take a day off," she said. "I cannot do that. My blood calls me to be here. I go somewhere else, and it calls me back." 

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