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submitted their resignation letters to Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury the next day. Sattar has been elected MP from Brahmanbaria-2 and Cumilla-1 constituencies.

He was also state minister for the law ministry, fisheries ministry, land ministry, as a technocrat cabinet member during BNP’s regime from 2001 to 2006.

BNP sources said Sattar was elected MP as an independent candidate from the then Cumilla-1 constituency in 1979, before Brahmanbaria district was declared.

Later, he was elected MP from Brahmanbaria-2 constituency with BNP’s ticket in 1991, and twice in 1996. He was made a technocrat minister, as he left his constituencies to one of the four party alliance leaders and Islami Oikya Jote Secretary General Mufti Fazlul Hoque Amini in the 2001 election.

He also won the elections in December 2018 parliamentary polls.

Sattar had been the Brahmanbaria unit BNP president for 27 years.

“My father is an advisor to the party chairperson. No one asks him anything about the party, not even the Brahmanbaria district unit BNP,” Tushar said.

Sattar could not be reached for comments.