As a JASAD candidate, Hasanul Haq Inu unsuccessfully contested the constituency in all elections from 1991 to 2001. He managed to win the national elections for the first time in 2008 as a candidate of the Awami League-led Grand Coalition.
Since then, he has been contesting parliamentary elections as a candidate of the ruling coalition with the boat symbol.
Inu was declared the winner unopposed in the 2014 election, while in 2018 he won by a significant margin with 280,636 votes.