Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed said the mob culture in Bangladesh has ended with the BNP government assuming office through the landslide victory in the 13th parliament election.

“Mob culture in Bangladesh ends. The mob culture in no way to be tolerated,” he added. 

He made the remarks while speaking to reporters on his first working day at the Home Ministry in Bangladesh Secretariat in Dhaka.

The minister said the government will not tolerate any more occupying the highways and roads and mob culture in the name of pressing for the demands.

“The logical demands will be met through due process,” he said.

The minister, however, said meetings, rallies and other lawful democratic rights can be exercised.

Ahmed, also a Standing Committee member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), said the government would transform the Bangladesh Police into a people-friendly force with regaining its lost glory.

“Police have to be people’s friends. The lost image of the police will have to be regained,” he said.

The Home Ministry will be made a corruption-free ministry, completely with ensuring accountability and transparency of all concerned. “No illegal lobby will be tolerated,” he assured.

Ahmed also vowed to bring the corrupt elements in the law enforcement agencies to justice through proper investigation.