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Soto Monir

Bangladeshi politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ66309222
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Soto Monir (born 27 May 1978) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former 2-time Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Tangail-2 constituency. He was the joint secretary of Awami League's branch in Germany.

Career

Monir entered student politics as a member of the Chhatra League in the early 1990s. However, he left Bangladesh in 1996 for Moscow University in Russia. He then moved to Germany, and served as the joint-secretary of the Awami League's branch of the central European country. He came back to Bangladesh during 2006-08 Bangladeshi political unrest.

Monir was elected to Jatiya Sangsad from the Tangail-2 constituency as a Awami League candidate at the 2018 Bangladeshi general election. He was accused of NID forgery, and arms trafficking, however the allegations were never proven and referred as "politically motivated conspiracy" by Monir's associates.

Monir serves as the joint-general secretary of the Tangail District Awami League, he previously served as the secretary of science and technology of the Tangail district committee of the Bangladesh Awami League. He is also the chairperson of Tangail's branch of the Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation.

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“Soto Monir” enters the record as bangladeshi politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Soto, Monir and Bangladeshi can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 1996, 2006, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Soto, Monir and Bangladeshi.
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“Soto Monir” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Soto, Monir and Bangladeshi provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q66309222. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978, 1996, 2006 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Soto Monir” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.