STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Home Adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday warned that the government would take strict departmental and legal action if evidence is found that anyone engaged in election duty worked in favour of any candidate or sought to implement any party agenda.

Jahangir said government employees are not members of any political party, but salaried state officials appointed with taxpayers’ money.

“Therefore, even the slightest bias or biased behaviour towards any political party will not be tolerated,” he said at a meeting at the Bangladesh Police Auditorium in Rajarbagh, organised by the home ministry and the Dhaka divisional commissioner’s office.