Quazi Kamal
Bangladeshi politician
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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]
Quazi Kamal | |
|---|---|
কাজী কামাল | |
| Member of the Bangladesh Parliament for Magura-2 | |
| In office March 1994 – 30 March 1996 | |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Asaduzzaman |
| Succeeded by | Biren Sikder |
| In office 28 October 2001 – 27 October 2006 | |
| Succeeded by | Biren Sikder |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Kamal has been imprisoned since February 2018 for a 10-year sentence in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.[3]
Career
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]