Career
Minu was elected to parliament from Rajshahi-2 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. [3] He received 176,405 votes while his nearest rival,A. H. M. Khairuzzaman Liton of Awami League,received 96,604 votes. [3]
Minu was elected mayor of Rajshahi in 2002. [4] His opponent,Fazle Hossain Badsha,made allegations of vote rigging and an Awami League activist was killed in election violence. [4]
In November 2008,Bangladesh High Court squashed an extortion case against him in which he was sentenced to 17 years jail,thereby allowing him to compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections. [5] He contested the election from Rajshahi-2 against Fazle Hossain Badsha of the Awami League led grand alliance. [4]
In December 2013,Minu was sued for murder after a police constable died in a bomb attack during a strike of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. [6]
Minu was sent to jail in March 2014 in a case filed over the attempted murder of the officer-in-charge of Boalia model police station after he was shot at a hartal (strike) of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on 4 June 2011. [7]
Minu was sent to jail in six arson cases in July 2015 and was released on bail in September. [8] He was admitted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital after his bail. [8]
Mosabbirul Islam,law affairs secretary of Rajshahi unit of the Awami League filed a sedition case against Minu on charges of threatening Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a rally of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on 2 March 2021. [9] He later apologized for calling for a repeat of the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,father of Sheikh Hasina. [10]
In July 2023,an employee of Ena Group,owned by Awami League member of parliament Enamul Haque,filed a case against Minu under the Digital Security Act after Minu accused Enamul of being a former president of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir. [11] Judge AM Zulfiqar Hayat of the Dhaka Cyber Tribunal dismissed the case against Minu on the reasoning that the complaint did not have grounds to file a complaint as the comments were not made against him or his close family. [11] The Prothom Alo called for the verdict to become a precedent for other cases filed under Digital Security Act to harass people. [11]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party sidelined Minu and Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul in favor of new leadership in Rajshahi. [12] He was removed from the Rajshahi District convening committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. [12]
This page is based on this
Wikipedia article Text is available under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
