Kamal Ahmed Majumder | |
|---|---|
কামাল আহমেদ মজুমদার | |
 Majumder in 2013 | |
| Member of Parliament | |
| Assumed office 25 January 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Constituency | Dhaka-15 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 March 1950 Feni,East Bengal,Dominion of Pakistan{present-day Bangladesh) |
| Political party | Bangladesh Awami League |
| Occupation | Politician |
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]
Majumder graduated with a B.A. degree. [2]
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]
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]
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]
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