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

COX'S BAZAR, March 1, 2025 (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.