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

Monirul Haque Sakku is a Bangladeshi politician[1] and the first and immediate past mayor of the Cumilla City Corporation as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[2][3][4] On 19 May 2022, he has been expelled permanently from BNP for breaching party discipline and again joined BNP in 2023. [5]

Career

On 7 January 2008, Anti-Corruption Commission (Bangladesh) 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.[6]

On 5 January 2012, Sakku was elected Mayor of Comilla on a nomination of Citizens Committee. He is a former president of Comilla City unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He had been expelled from the party.[7]

Sakku was nominated by Bangladesh Nationalist Party to contest the mayoral election in Comilla in 2017.[8] 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.[9] His candidacy was supported by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Independent TV chairman, 3 others sued". Prothom Alo. Archived from the original on 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2016-11-14.
  2. ↑ কুমিল্লার প্রথম মেয়র নির্বাচিত হলেন মনিরুল হক সাক্কু. bangla.irib.ir (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  3. ↑ "Sakku sinks AL favourite Afzal". thedailystar.net. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  4. ↑ "monirul haque sakku mayor comilla city". mediander.com. Archived from the original on 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2015-10-18.
  5. ↑ "Cumilla city mayor Sakku relieved from BNP's executive committee". UNB. Retrieved 2021-12-13.
  6. ↑ "Comilla city mayor Sakku gets clean chit in graft case". Dhaka Tribune. 2017-11-22. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  7. ↑ "Comilla votes Sakku to victory". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  8. ↑ "BNP nominates Monirul Haque Sakku for Comilla City Corporation election". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  9. ↑ "BNP's Monirul wins Comilla city polls". The Daily Star. 2017-03-31. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  10. ↑ "Think Jamaat is finished? Think again". Dhaka Tribune. 2017-04-16. Retrieved 2020-07-10.


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