Staff Reporter:
Home Adviser Lieutenant General (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Saturday said the government would take all necessary steps to ensure full security for BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman upon his return to Bangladesh.
“There is no concern regarding his safety. We will make every possible arrangement to ensure his security,” he told journalists after a Core Committee meeting on law and order at the Home Ministry in the Bangladesh Secretariat.
The assurance comes amid heightened public and political focus on Tarique Rahman’s anticipated return to the country.
Earlier, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir hinted at Tarique’s homecoming during the opening session of the fifth day of the party’s “Plan to Build the Country” workshop in Dhaka on December 11, stating that the BNP leader would return “very soon” after spending 17 years in exile in London.
Tarique left for the United Kingdom in 2008 for medical treatment, shortly after his mother and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia announced that he would refrain from politics until his recovery.
According to his lawyers, 84 cases were filed against him during his years abroad. However, following the ouster of the Awami League government in a mass uprising on August 5 last year, Tarique has since been acquitted of all convictions.
