Kamal Ahmed Majumder

Kamal Ahmed Majumder
Member of Parliament
Assumed office
2004
Personal details
Born (1950-03-03) 3 March 1950
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Political party Bangladesh Awami League

Kamal Ahmed Majumder (born 3 March 1950) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent Member of Parliament and the incumbent Member of Parliament from Dhaka-15. [1]

Early life

Majumder was born on 3 March 1950. He 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 Bangladeshi general election, 2008 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. 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 a 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 2018-09-07.
  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". clickittefaq.com. The Daily Ittefaq. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  7. ↑ "Bangladesh Election Result 2014". election.dhakatribune.com. Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  8. 1 2 3 "Mohona TVMD dies". Daily Sun. The 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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