Savar, Nov. 10 -- Over 5.5 lakh members of the Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP) will be deployed to ensure security during the upcoming national election, said Major General Abdul Motaleb Sazzad, Director General (DG) of the Bangladesh Ansar and VDP.

The Ansar DG came up with the information while talking to reporters after inaugurating the basic training programme for male and female Ansar-VDP members at Gokulnagar High School in Ashulia, Savar on Monday.

"Ansar members have been preparing since August 5. The entire force is being reorganised through reforms to include young members. Earlier, the force lacked young people but over the past one and a half years, we have started training youths aged between 18 and 25," sa...