Monirul Haque Sakku

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[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]

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.[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]

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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