Kamal Ahmed Majumder

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]