Jatiya Party has worked out elaborate programmes to observe the first death anniversary of its founder and former military ruler HM Ershad on July 14.

However, all the programmes will be held maintaining social distancing rules amid the coronavirus pane, said a party press release on Thursday.

Besides, Jatiya Party formed a committee headed by its secretary general Moshiur Rahman Ranga to make party founder’s death anniversary programmes a success.

As part of the programmes, Jatiya Party flag will be kept at half-mast atop all offices of the party across the country on July 14.

Besides, Qurankhawani , milad mahfil and discussion meetings will be arranged at all offices of the party on the occasion seeking eternal peace for Ershad’s departed soul.

Jatiya Party senior leaders, led by its chairman GM Quader, will offer fateha at the grave of Ershad in Rangpur at 10am the same day. A doa-mahfil-cum discussion meeting will also be held there.

Later, the party leaders will return to Dhaka and join a doa mahfil at Jatiya Party’s Kakrail central office in the capital in the afternoon.

A doa mahfil and Qurankhawani  will also be heled at Jatiya Party Chairman’s Banani office.

HM Ershad, who was ousted in 1990 after his nine years of autocratic rule, died on July 14 last year at the age of 89 while undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka.