- Source: Monirul Haque Sakku
Monirul Haque Sakku is a Bangladeshi politician and the first and former mayor of the Cumilla City Corporation as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. On 19 May 2022, he was expelled from BNP for breaching party discipline and again joined BNP in 2023. He was pourashva mayor before 2012. He has a daughter, Sunzida Haque.
Career
On 7 January 2008, the Anti-Corruption Commission sued Sakku and his wife for illegal wealth. He was charged on 4 February 2016 but his wife's, Afroza Jasmine, was dropped. On 22 November 2017 a trial court found him innocent of all charges.
On 5 January 2012, Sakku was elected mayor of Comilla on a nomination of Citizens Committee. He is a former president of the Comilla City unit of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He had been expelled from the party.
Sakku was nominated by Bangladesh Nationalist Party to contest the mayoral election in Comilla in 2017. He was re-elected mayor on 31 March 2017. A correspondent of The Daily Star reported seeing some activists of Awami League stuff ballots for their candidate. His candidacy was supported by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
He was removed from the BNP national executive committee in December 2021.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Monirul Haque Sakku
- Monirul
- Cumilla City Corporation
- 2017 Cumilla City Corporation election
- Arfanul Haque Rifat
- A. K. M. Bahauddin
- Md. Kamrul Hossain Mollah
- Mayor of Cumilla
- 2024 Comilla City Corporation by-election
- Anjum Sultana Sima
