Former president and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad was buried at his home in Rangpur.
He was buried with state honour at around 6pm in Darshona's Palli Nibash house.
The former military
dictator was the most admirable political figure at Rangpur for over three decades.
Ershad, who ruled the country for nine years, was buried at the grave dug by his party followers at the Litchi Orchard of his Polli Nibash as Jatiya Party was forced to revise its decision of burying him at Military Graveyard in the capital due to rigid stance of party followers in Rangpur.
Huge army personnel took position around the prepared grave before the burial to maintain discipline as thousands of people gathered there to bid farewell to their beloved leader.
The military men carried ex-army chief Ershad's coffin draped in an Army flag to near the grave. Later, a life sketch of the Jatiya Party Chairman was read out before observing a one-minute silence showing tributes to him.
Army personnel supervised the burial process in presence of Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq, Jatiya Party acting Chairman and Ershad's younger brother GM Quader, JaPa Secretary General Mashiur Rahman Ranga and his relatives and party senior leaders.
After his fourth and final funeral prayer (namaz-e-janaza) in Rangpur Eidgah Ground, Jatiya Party issued a statement that Ershad would be buried in Rangpur following the demands of the party activists.
Earlier in a statement, Ershad's wife Raushon Ershad, also deputy leader in Jatiya Sangsad, said showing respect for the love of people of Rangpur she agreed to bury her husband in Rangpur.
Raushan also made a request for keeping aside a place beside Ershad's grave so that she can be buried there after her demise, the party statement said.
"It's not possible to ignore the love and affection of the mass people of Rangpur for former president HM Ershad. So, the decision to bury him in Rangpur was taken considering the love and sentiment of the people of Rangpur," the statement reads.
Earlier, the fourth and final namaz-e-janaza of Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad was held at Central Collectorate Eidgah around 2:28pm with the participation of thousands of people.
Huge law enforcers were deployed in and around the Eidgah to fend off any untoward incident as local leaders announced to thwart party senior leader's plan to bury Ershad at Military Graveyard in the capital instead of Rangpur.
On Sunday, Jatiya Party Secretary General Moshiur Rahman Ranga announced that their chairperson will be buried at the military graveyard in the capital.
Protesting the decision, Jatiya party's Rangpur and Rajshahi units held a joint meeting at the party's Rangpur city unit office on Monday and decided to bury Ershad in Rangpur at any cost. They later prepared a grave at Polli Nibash.
Earlier in the morning, the body of Ershad, who passed away in the capital on June 14 Sunday morning, was brought here for the janaza. A helicopter of Bangladesh Air Force carrying the coffin of the Jatiya Party chief landed at Rangpur Cantonment around 11:30am.
Jatiya Party Acting Chairman GM Quader, Secretary General Moshiur Rahman Ranga, former secretary general Ruhul Amin Hawlader and Ershad's son Rahgir Al Mahi Shad Ershad, among others, accompanied the body.
Ershad, the leader of the opposition in parliament and five-time MP, breathed his last at 7:45am on Sunday while undergoing treatment at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka.
His first janaza was held at the Army Central Mosque in Dhaka on Sunday while two other janazas were held in the capital on Monday.
Ershad's qulkhwani will be held on Wednesday at Gulshan's Azad mosque in Dhaka.
The deposed military dictator had been shuttling between his home and hospital for the last few months as his health condition deteriorated.
He was admitted to the CMH on June 26 as he had been suffering from various old-age complications, including low haemoglobin, kidney and liver problems and high bilirubin.
