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Published : 14 Sep 2025, 10:35 PM
Former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar has held a two-hour meeting with Home Advisor Jahangir Alam Chowdhury at the home ministry.
Babar, who was jailed from 2007 to 2024, described the meeting as "fruitful" to journalists at the Secretariat on Sunday.
Jahangir told journalists after the meeting that a range of national issues were discussed during the session.
The former minister for home affairs during the BNP coalition government arrived at the Secretariat after 19 years.
Explaining the reason for the meeting with the advisor, Babar said, “We had some concerns, which we discussed.
“A special industrial group, S Alam Group, held a meeting with deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and it has been reported in the newspapers.
“The purpose of their meeting," he claimed, "was to sabotage the elections in Bangladesh and to cause violent incidents.”
He added that other issues of concern, including illegal weapons and unrecovered looted arms, were also discussed.
Regarding the current law and order situation, Babar said: “[The interim government] are making sincere efforts. There is no lack of commitment.”
Babar was arrested on May 28, 2007, during the military-controlled caretaker government. He was convicted in several cases over the two years of the emergency rule and the following 15 years of the Awami League regime.
He received death sentences in two cases and life imprisonment in another. After the Awami League government fell on Aug 5 last year following a student-public uprising, Babar was acquitted in all these cases on appeal.
