[1][2] During the Bangladesh Nationalist Party rule from 2001 to 2006, Rumi served as the director general of Special Security Force.

[3] He backed the military supported caretaker government that took power during the 2006–2008 Bangladeshi political crisis.

[2][6] He worked with Chief of Staff of Bangladesh Army, Moeen U Ahmed, to establish Rangpur University and a new political party called Jago Bangladesh.

[7] In February 2009, Rumi was made the chairman of Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies a state operated think tank.

[8] The Government of Bangladesh sent him and Lieutenant General Aminul Karim, commandant of the National Defence College, to forced retirement in March 2009.