Kamal Ahmed Majumder | |
Native Name: | কামাল আহমেদ মজুমদার |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Constituency Mp: | Dhaka-15 |
Parliament: | Bangladesh |
Predecessor: | Position established |
Term Start: | 25 January 2009 |
Term End: | 6 August 2024 |
Birth Date: | 3 March 1950 |
Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Occupation: | Politician |
Party: | Bangladesh Awami League |
Kamal Ahmed Majumder (born 3 March 1950) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Dhaka-15 since its inception in 2009 until 2024.[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. 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.
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]