In 1973, it was placed under the Ministry of Home Affairs and an Ansar cadre was formed in the Bangladesh Civil Service.

Together with its sister organization Village Defence Party, it has millions of members including reserves.

[6][1] Official estimates place the death toll at 1 or 2 and 12-40 Ansar personnel were injured.

[2][8] In response to the agitations, the government passed a series of acts in the Jatiya Sangsad.

[3] The government set up Ansar VDP Bank where the members of Ansar-VDP were decided to be the shareholders.