The third anniversary of the death of former president and Jatiya Party founder Hussain Muhammad Ershad was observed on Thursday.
Jatiya Party took up elaborate programmes to mark the anniversary with due respect.
As part of the programmes, Jatiya Party flag was kept at half-mast atop all the offices of the party across the country.
Qurankhawani, milad mahfil and discussion meetings were arranged at the party offices across the country, including Kakrail central office, seeking eternal peace for Ershad’s departed soul.
The leaders and activists of the party and its different associate bodies placed wreaths on the portrait of Ershad in the morning on the premises of party headquarters at Kakrail.
Besides, the party leaders and activists distributed food among the destitutes marking the day.
Jatiya party will also arrange a public rally at Shampur-Jurain Railgate in the capital on Friday afternoon.
At the end of the programme, food will be distributed among 3,000 disadvantaged people.
Meanwhile, Jatiya Party leaders and activists offered fateha at the grave of Ershad in Rangpur on Thursday morning.
A doa-mahfil-cum discussion meeting was also held there.
Ershad Trust organised a memorial meeting at President Park in Baridhara in the capital.
Gen. Ershad, who was ousted in 1990 after his nine years of autocratic rule, died on July 14, 2019 at the age of 89 while undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka.
Amid political turmoil after the assassination of Ziaur Rahman in a military coup, Ershad took over the state power from then-President Abdus Sattar on March 24, 1982, as the Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA).
He formed ‘Jatiya Party’ in 1986 and was elected president of the country for a term of five years the same year through the third parliamentary election, triggering huge protests by other political parties.
Amid a fierce combined movement by the opposition parties, he was finally forced to step down on 6 December 1990.
Source: United News of Bangladesh