When asked by DB, Salman F Rahman said, if I am detained, 80 thousand people working in my various organizations will not get salary. I will not be able to pay the installments of the loans taken from different banks. It will harm the country. so let me go I will fix the country. At that time, the DB official said, ‘If you decide, do it here. Go to court and talk. But you will not be without. You have to be remanded for at least one year in one case after another.’ DB asked Salman F Rahman-‘Before the last election, the Awami League government was supposed to fall. Why didn’t it happen then?’ In reply, Salman said, we were able to convince America through India that we are on America’s side. There is no alternative to Sheikh Hasina to save Bangladesh. Then America was convinced by our and India’s words. Otherwise, we would have fallen immediately.
It is to be noted that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country in the face of student uprising on August 5. Since then, Awami League leaders are constantly being arrested. Among those currently remanded in DB custody are former Deputy Speaker Shamsul Haque Tuku, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman, former Law Minister Anisul Haque, former State Minister for Information and Technology Junaid Ahmed Palak, National Telecommunication Monitoring Center. (NTMC) Director General Major General (Retd.) Ziaul Ahsan, Former MP Sadek Khan, Former Chief Whip of Jatiya Sangsad AM Feroze, Workers Party Rashed Khan Menon, Awami League Organizing Secretary Ahmed Hossain, Former Chairman of Chittagong Port Rear Admiral (Retd. ) Mohammad Sohail, former sports deputy minister Arif Khan Joy, former social welfare minister Dr. Dipu Moni, former senior secretary Shah Kamal, general secretary of Dhaka University Chhatra League Tanveer Hasan Saikat and others.
