Family members of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, including his daughter Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will get lifetime security cover.
According to a new law, the security will be ensured to the family members even if Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina doesn’t hold office.
The law ‘Special Security Force (SSF) Bill, 2021’ was passed in Parliament on Tuesday with the provision of providing security to the family members of the Bangabandhu and very important persons.
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq, who is in charge of the Prime Minister's Office in Parliament, moved the Bill and it was passed by voice vote.
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The Bill was passed to replace the ‘Special Security Force Ordinance 1986’, which was formulated during the military regime.
The new law was drafted revising the existing one. Providing security to the family members of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and the very important persons were included in the law.
Bangabandhu’s family members means his two daughters, grandchildren, and in some cases, spouses or issues of the grandchildren. The very important persons defined by the government through gazettes, and the heads of foreign state or government will be given security under the law.
In the case of providing security to the Bangabandhu’s family members, the Special Security Force Act, 2021 will be given priority no matter whatever is there in the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Family Members Security Act, 2009.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated along with most of his family members on August 15 in 1975. His daughters Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana were abroad at that time. Sheikh Hasina, however, narrowly escaped a gruesome grenade attack in 2004 when she was addressing a party rally in the capital.
On May 25 in 2015, the government issued a gazette ensuring lifelong foolproof state security everywhere in the country to the family members of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The move was taken in line with the Father of the Nation’s Family Members Security Act, 2009.
