
The government on Saturday formed a committee comprising four representatives from general Ansars and the director general of the Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party to examine Ansar members’ logical demands.
Ansar-VDP director general AKM Aminul Haque told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· that the committee was formed on Saturday after discussing with the chief adviser to the interim government.
‘Four protesting Ansar representatives along with me and ADG and several members of the force are members of the committee. The letter of forming the committee will be issued soon,’ AKM Aminul said.
He said that the committee would examine the logical demands of Ansar
Against the backdrop, the home ministry on Saturday asked the committee comprised of representatives from general Ansars and the Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party director general to submit their logical demands to the interim government after scrutiny in seven working days.
After receiving a report from the committee, an inter-ministerial committee would examine recommendations and place those to the government, according to a press release of the Public Security Division under the home ministry signed by its senior secretary Mohammad Abdul Momen.
It said that the government had found some of their demands logical.
The ministry had informed the chief adviser to interim government about the demands of general Ansars as the government was considering their demands with deep attention and sympathy,
The ministry said that they would also examine the matter of continuing their services without giving vacations after three years.
No general Ansar members will be appointed initially, the release said.
The ministry hoped for a logical and acceptable solution through the process about the demands of Ansar members.
Urging all Ansar members to return home, the ministry mentioned that only a handful of instigators were trying to create indiscipline in the disciplined force like the Ansar-VDP.
The release said that if it was necessary, the government would take legal actions against them.
According to Ansar VDP officials, 98,000–99,000 trained Ansar members are active in the force with 55,000 now employed in different government and private establishments.
Ansar members have been continuing their protests for more than two weeks demanding their job regularisation and cancelling vacation in every three years.
They began their protests about a week after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising.