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Bangladeshi politician

Monirul Haque Sakku
মনিরুল হক সাক্কু
Mayor of Comilla
In office
5 January 2012 – 15 May 2022
Preceded byPost established
Succeeded byArfanul Haque Rifat
Personal details
BornComilla, Bangladesh
NationalityBangladeshi
Political partyBangladesh Nationalist Party
SpouseAfroza Jesmin
Children1
ResidenceComilla
OccupationPolitician

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

  1. "Independent TV chairman, 3 others sued". Prothom Alo. Archived from the original on 15 November 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  2. কুমিল্লার প্রথম মেয়র নির্বাচিত হলেন মনিরুল হক সাক্কু. IRIB World Service (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  3. "Sakku sinks AL favourite Afzal". The Daily Star. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  4. "Comilla city mayor Sakku gets clean chit in graft case". Dhaka Tribune. 22 November 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  5. "Comilla votes Sakku to victory". bdnews24.com. 5 January 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  6. "BNP nominates Monirul Haque Sakku for Comilla City Corporation election". bdnews24.com. 26 February 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  7. "BNP's Monirul wins Comilla city polls". The Daily Star. 31 March 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  8. "Think Jamaat is finished? Think again". Dhaka Tribune. 16 April 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  9. "Cumilla city mayor Sakku relieved from BNP's executive committee". UNB. Retrieved 13 December 2021.


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