Media have recently reported that AKM Jahangir was one of the government officials who attended a meeting with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan political office in the capital recently.

There were reports that some 20 to 30 government officials and employees led by a joint secretary held a closed-door meeting with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia late at night on December 4. However, the party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir denied of such a meeting issuing a press release at that night.

But, State Minister for Public Administration Ismat Ara Sadeque told reporters that the government had taken the news of the meeting "very seriously" and would take administrative steps against the government officials for attending the meeting.

Afterward, sources at the Ministry of Public Administration said the list of the officials and employees attending the meeting was collected through three intelligence agencies. The ministry of examining the names of those mentioned in the list. The administrative steps would be taken after finalising the issue of identification.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday Ismat Ara Sadeque said the officials attending the meeting were identified. Administrative steps would be taken against them as early as possible.