Emajuddin wants judicial enquiry into ‘dirty drama’ over BNP leader Salahuddin

Pro-BNP professionals’ leader Emajuddin Ahamed has termed the arrest of party leader Salahuddin Ahmed in India ‘dirty drama by the government’ and demanded a judicial investigation.

“The government is trying to play dirty drama over the resurfacing of Salahuddin Ahmed. It’s unreal and unbelievable,” Ahamed told a discussion in Dhaka on Friday.
 
“People do not believe such dirty drama,” he added.
 
The former Dhaka University vice-chancellor asked ‘who took Ahmed to India’.
 
“[The government should] form a judicial investigation committee to publish names of the places Salahuddin was taken to and say under what circumstances he was taken to a mental hospital in Shillong.”
 
“Please present credible information to the people,” he urged the government.
 
Two months after he had gone ‘missing’, Ahmed was arrested in Indian city Shillong last Monday without any valid passport or visa. 
 
Police there sent him to a mental hospital finding inconsistency in his behaviour.
 
The news broke when he called his wife in Dhaka on the following day.
 
BNP Joint Secretary General Ahmed claimed he could not remember anything after he had been ‘picked up by unidentified people from a house at Uttara’ in Dhaka on Mar 10.
 
His wife Hasina Ahmed had alleged that plainclothesmen took him away.
 
Ruling Awami League leaders, however, have been saying that BNP was behind the ‘disappearance’ of Ahmed.
 
Ahamed, who is the convenor of ‘Shoto Nagarik Committee’, a body of BNP-backed forum of professionals, recalled that Salahuddin Ahmed was his student at the Dhaka University.

The BNP leader had been a student attached to the Haji Muhammed Mohsin Hall when he was the provost of the residential hall, he said.

“Now the government is trying to play a dirty game with him,” he said.

“How was he taken to the other side of the border?” he asked.

“He was seen dressed in clean, starched clothes. Then his cloths were changed. It was claimed that he had been straying like a mad man. So he was admitted to a mental hospital,” Ahamed continued. 

“Who was it that took the healthy youth, a former state minister, to Shillong...These should be clarified to the nation,” said the former academic about 54-year-old Ahmed.

He said the government would have to bear the responsibility if it failed to provide ‘correct’ information to the people.

“They won’t be forgiven in the future even if they can conceal the matter now,” he said.

“What the ministers are saying about Salahuddin is not true. They are doing this to malign him,” Ahamed added.