Kamal Ahmed Majumder

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Kamal Ahmed Majumder
কামাল আহমেদ মজুমদার
Kamal Ahmed Majumder by Rezowan (cropped).jpg
Majumder in 2013
Member of Parliament
for Dhaka-15
Assumed office
January 2009
Preceded byPosition established
Personal details
Born (1950-03-03) 3 March 1950 (age 71)
Feni, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan
NationalityBangladeshi
Political partyBangladesh Awami League
OccupationPolitician

Kamal Ahmed Majumder (born 3 March 1950) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member from Dhaka-15 since its inception in 2009.[1]

Early life[]

Majumder graduated with a B.A. degree.[2]

Career[]

Majumder contested the controversial by-election in Mirpur on 3 February 1993. He lost the election to Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate Sayed Muhammad Mohsin.[3] He was arrested in August 2002 by Bangladesh Police during the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government. Amnesty International feared that he would be tortured in custody.[4]

Majumder was elected to Parliament in the 2008 Bangladeshi general election, beating Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate Muhammad Hamidullah Khan.[5] On 22 October 2013 his car was attacked with Molotov cocktails outside Mohona TV.[6] He was elected to Parliament in the General Election 2014 as a candidate of Bangladesh Awami League from Dhaka-15. He beat his nearest rival Ekhlas Uddin Molla, an independent candidate by 26,786 votes.[7] Majumder is the chairman of Mohona TV, a private television channel.[8] He is a member of the Parliamentary standing committee on Housing and Public Works Ministry.[9]

Personal life[]

Majumder is married to Shahida Majumdar. She is the daughter of Syed Yasin.Shahida was sued by Bangladesh Anti Corruption Commission for possession of illegal wealth.[10] His son, Ziauddin Ahmed Majumder Jewel, was the managing director of Mohona TV.[8] Jewel was sentenced to 40 years in jail in 2002 for the murder of Shipu, a cell phone trader in Banani.[11][12] Jewel died on 29 May 2017.[8]

Controversy[]

Majumder assaulted RTV journalist, Aparna Singha, and cameraman, Syed Haider, on 4 January 2012 in the Monipur High School and College at Mirpur. He is the president of the Monipur High School managing committee.[13] He was fined in 2013 by Bangladesh Election Commission for violating the electoral code of conduct while campaigning for the 2014 Bangladesh general elections.[14] In 2014 he established an extrajudicial court called Social Justice Committee in his office in Mirpur. Mirpur police officers described the court as illegal.[15]

References[]

  1. ^ Majumder, Kamal Ahmed. "Constituency 188_10th_En". www.parliament.gov.bd (in Bengali). Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Kamal Ahmed Majumder Biography". Amarmp. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  3. ^ Chowdhury, Mahfuzul H. (2017) [First published 2003]. Democratization in South Asia: Lessons from American Institutions. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-77391-1.
  4. ^ "Document". amnesty.org.
  5. ^ "Bangladesh Parliament Election". amardesh.com. Amar Desh Online. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Cocktail hurled at MP Kamal Majumder's car". Ittefaq. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  7. ^ "Bangladesh Election Result 2014". election.dhakatribune.com. Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  8. ^ a b c "Mohona TVMD dies". Daily Sun. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  9. ^ "Amendments suggested to Cox's Bazar Development Authority Bill 2015". bssnews.net. BSS. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  10. ^ "Kamal Majumder's wife surrenders to court". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  11. ^ Asian News Digest: A Weekly Record on Governance, Economy, Development, Human Rights, and Environment. Asian News Chroniclers. 2002. p. 2402. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  12. ^ "Kamal Majumder's son, four others get 40 years". article.wn.com. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  13. ^ "MP Kamal Majumder assaults TV reporter". The Daily Star. 4 January 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  14. ^ "Kamal Ahmed Majumder fined". banglanews24.com. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  15. ^ "'Court' in parliament member's office". Prothom Alo. Retrieved 11 February 2018.

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