Take action considering crime, not party: Home Adviser

Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd.) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury attended a view-sharing meeting today with officials from the Home and Agriculture Ministries at the conference room of the Cox’s Bazar DC. Photo: BSS

Home Adviser Lieutenant
General Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury (Retd.) today asked all
concerned to take action considering crime, not party.

“We’re not working for the benevolence of any party.  Whatever needs
to be done is being done for the welfare of the country,” he said.

The Home Adviser said no one in the administration has been told by
any department to show sympathy to people of any party.

“If leaders and activists of any party are involved in encroachment or
any other crime, the concerned have been instructed to take strict
action against them based on evidence,” he said.

He made the remarks while speaking to journalists after exchanging
views with officials of the Home and Agriculture Ministries at the Cox’s
Bazar Deputy Commissioner’s conference room.

The Home Affairs Adviser has also ordered withdrawal of Chakaria
Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Manjur Quader Bhuiyan within
24 hours.

He gave the instruction to the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of
Chittagong Range over phone upon receiving a complaint made by a
journalist.

Jahangir said kidnapping and drug trafficking have increased in Cox’s
Bazar and the issue is often reported in the media.

“You (journalists) and the local conscious people know who is doing
these things. There is a disease in our administration, which is giving
priority to the people of the party which has the chance to come to
power,” he said.

About Rohingya issue, the Home Affairs Adviser said that they have
given shelter to the Rohingyas on humanitarian ground.

“Although it is said to be 1.2 million on paper, but, the actual number is
even higher. They have become a burden for us. Without their
repatriation, it is difficult to stop criminal activities in the border areas,”
he said.

Jahangir said Bangladesh has import-export trade with Myanmar.

“But since the Arakan Army took over Rakhine State, there have been
obstacles in trade. The Arakan Army had detained many ships. It had
taken many Bangladeshi fishermen. For this reason, contact is being
maintained with the Arakan Army for the sake of border security and
the repatriation of the Rohingyas,” he said.

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