The government has decided to deploy a total of 12,000 Ansar members at 993 important points on different highways across the country on Friday.
The decision came from an inter-ministerial meeting at the conference room in the ministry of Road Transport and Bridge around 4:50pm on Thursday.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader briefed the media about the Ansar deployment after the meeting.
He said the decision has been taken in a bid to ensure safe journey of the passengers.
“Twelve Ansar members will be deployed at each point in two shifts.”
The BNP-led 20-party alliance has been enforcing nationwide non-stop roads and waterways blockade since January 5.
So far, more than 35 people have died and scores have been injured in different parts of the country in violence, which mostly involved arson attacks.
Of those, a Large number of arson attacks are being conducted on highways. Hundreds of vehicles, including those belonging to law-enforcers, were burnt and attacked.
In face of public demand, the government has planned to take a number of security measures in order to ensure people's security.
It announced rewards for catching anarchists responsible for violence during hartal and blockades.
The BNP chairperson called the non-stop blockade on January 5 after she was barred from coming out of her Gulshan political office.
BNP said she was “confined” but the government said she was free to go home.
Police kept in place extremely tight security around Khaleda’s Gulshan office for 16 days.
On January 12, the security was relaxed.
But Khaleda never came out; instead she said in a press conference that she was going to stay there and the blockade would continue unless the government took the first steps towards solution.
