Kamal Ahmed Majumder

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]

Kamal Ahmed Majumder
কামাল আহমেদ মজুমদার
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
Feni, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan
NationalityBangladeshi
Political partyBangladesh Awami League
OccupationPolitician

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. "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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