Quazi Kamal | |
Native Name: | কাজী কামাল |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Constituency Mp: | Magura-2 |
Parliament: | Bangladesh |
Term Start: | March 1994 |
Term End: | 30 March 1996 |
Predecessor: | Mohammad Asaduzzaman |
Successor: | Biren Sikder |
Term Start1: | 28 October 2001 |
Term End1: | 27 October 2006 |
Successor1: | Biren Sikder |
Party: | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Qazi Saleemul Huq (known as Quazi Kamal) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Magura-2 constituency during 1994–1996 and 2001–2006.[1] He is the founder of GQ Group of Industries, a manufacturing based organization in Bangladesh.[2]
Kamal has been imprisoned since February 2018 for a 10-year sentence in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.[3]
Kamal was elected in parliament from Magura-2 in the 1994 by-election as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).[4] In 2001 he was elected again from the same constituency. He was appointed as the president of Magura District unit of the party.[5]
In January 2008, Kamal was acquitted from a case of abetting former state minister Salahuddin Ahmed in extorting money.[6]
On 10 August 2016, Kamal resigned from the executive committee of BNP over the inclusion of Nitai Roy Chowdhury in the committee.[7] [8]
Kamal, along with the former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, Tarique Rahman, Mominur Rahman, Kamal Uddin Siddique and Sharfuddin Ahmed, were sentenced to imprisonment in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case on 8 February 2018.[9] [10]