Monirul Haque Sakku | |
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মনিরুল হক সাক্কু | |
Mayor of Comilla | |
In office 5 January 2012 –15 May 2022 | |
Preceded by | Post established |
Succeeded by | Arfanul Haque Rifat |
Personal details | |
Born | Comilla,Bangladesh |
Nationality | Bangladeshi |
Political party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Spouse | Afroza Jesmin |
Children | 1 |
Residence | Comilla |
Occupation | Politician |
Monirul Haque Sakku is a Bangladeshi politician [1] and the first and former mayor of the Cumilla City Corporation as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. [2] [3] 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.[ citation needed ]
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. [4]
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. [5]
Sakku was nominated by Bangladesh Nationalist Party to contest the mayoral election in Comilla in 2017. [6] 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. [7] His candidacy was supported by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. [8]
He was removed from the BNP national executive committee in December 2021. [9]
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