[6] During Awami League rule in 1997, Alamgir was invited to join the cabinet as the State Minister for Planning.

On 13 September 2012, during the administration of Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League, Alamgir accepted a ministerial post.

[7] On 26 November 2023, Awami League announced the final list of its 298 candidates to contest the 2024 national election which did not include Alamgir.

According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the groups that fought for his release, Alamgir later reported in court that Every evening at midnight, the police would enter his cell and blindfold him.

In December 2002 the BNP government filed a sedition case against Alamgir for his role in a widespread protest in 1996 against the elections of the previous year.

[14] On 4 February 2007, Alamgir was arrested from his home by civil and military police; the government had called a state of emergency in Bangladesh.

Eventually the government charged him with corruption based on a wealth statement that he was forced to write while in jail and without access to lawyers or any documents.

[15] During the trial in July 2007, seven prominent persons, including well-known economists of Bangladesh and the United States, testified to his honesty.

[16] The summary tribunal set up by the military-led caretaker government convicted him of graft and sentenced him to 13 years imprisonment.

[19] In December 2008, the Awami League coalition won two-thirds of the seats in Parliament; Alamgir was among those elected while he was still on bail.