History
On 12 February 1948, Ansar Bahini was established and it was implemented on June 17, 1948, when the Ansar Act was approved in the East Bengal Legislative Assembly. Since then, the training program of the force was temporarily held in Dhaka's Shahbagh. During the Pakistan-India war in 1965, the Ansar was tasked with the security of the Ansar in the border outposts of the country. After accepting the oath of Bangladesh's first temporary government (Mujibnagar) in the war of liberation, Ansar Platoon gave the Guard of Honor to the President of 12 Ansar Force under the leadership of Commander Yad Ali. During the war of independence, Ansar Bahini was abducted as a rebel. The Ansar members took part in the liberation war with about 40 thousand rifles. In the war, 970 officers, 4 employees and 657 Ansar members of the Ansar force, totaling 670 were martyred. One of the army's Bir Bikram and two others were awarded the title of Bir Prakek. After the independence period, training programs of Ansar Bahar were conducted at Savar under Dhaka from 1973 to 1975. In 1976, the Village Defense Party (VDP) and the City Defense Group (TDP) were formed in 1980. Later, these two forces were merged with Ansar Bahini. In 1976, the National Ansar Training Center (NATC) was established in Safipur, Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur district. In 1983, it was named Ansar Training School. Ansar Training School was upgraded to the Ansar Academy in 1986. It was named as Ansar-VDP Academy in 1995. The force is currently being run by the Ansar Bahini Act, 1995 and the Battalion Ansar Act, 1995, which was approved by the Parliament, on 15 February 1995, was approved by the Honorable President and effective from 16 February 1995. According to these two laws, a disciplined army of Ansar Bahini, according to the provisions of Article 152 of the Constitution.
Members of the union are working as union leaders for both Ansar and VDP.
1. Md. Razzak Ali, Village: Kapashhatia, Post Office: Valki Bazar, Upazila: Harinakundu, District: Jhenaidah
2. Momen: Momena Khatun, Village: Kapashhetia, Post Office: Valki Bazar, Upazila: Harinakundu, District: Jhenaidah.
Planning and Implementation: Cabinet Division, A2I, BCC, DoICT and BASIS