A total of 20,000 members of police will remain on duty in different areas of the capital on February 21, DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia has said.
The police chief made the disclosure in a press briefing at DMP media centre on Thursday afternoon.
"Of the police personnel, 8,000 uniformed members and 1,000 in plainclothes will ensure security near Shaheed Minar area on that day," Asaduzzaman Mia said.
In response to a query whether Khaleda Zia would be provided security if she go to place wreaths at Shaheed Minar, the DMP boss said: "She will get the security like other people. Now BNP is no more an opposition party."
He also stated that no political party would be allowed to bring out any kind of procession in the Shaheed Minar area on February 21.
On February 21, people from all walks of life in Bangladesh began to pour into Shaheed Minar all to pay their homage to those who laid down their lives to establish Bangla as a state language on February 21 in 1952.
February 21 is observed across the world as the Unesco recognised International Mother Language Day since November 17, 1999.
On February 21, 1952, Rafiq Uddin Ahmed, Abdul Jabbar, Abul Barkat, Abdus Salam and a nine-year-old boy named Ohiullah embraced martyrdom when police opened fire on a protest rally demanding Bangla as the state language in front of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Another Shafiur Rahman died the next day. The protests began against a conspiracy by the then Pakistan leaders to declare Urdu as the only state language.