[4] His opponent, Fazle Hossain Badsha, made allegations of vote rigging and an Awami League activist was killed in election violence.

[4] In November 2008, Bangladesh High Court squashed an extortion case against him in which he was sentenced to 17 years jail, thereby allowing him to compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

[4] In December 2013, Minu was sued for murder after a police constable died in a bomb attack during a strike of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

[6] Minu was sent to jail in March 2014 in a case filed over the attempted murder of the officer-in-charge of Boalia model police station after he was shot at a hartal (strike) of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on 4 June 2011.

[8] Mosabbirul Islam, law affairs secretary of Rajshahi unit of the Awami League filed a sedition case against Minu on charges of threatening Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a rally of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on 2 March 2021.