Dhaka, Dec. 14 -- 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 ...