Mustafa Kamal (politician)


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Mustafa Kamal is a Bangladeshi politician, cricket official, and businessman. He is a member of the Jatiya Sangsad representing the Comilla-10 constituency and is a former Minister for Planning and current Minister of Finance. He is also the owner of Lotus Kamal Group, which is a textile industry. Kamal was awarded the Finance Minister of the Year 2020 by the Banker.

Early life

Kamal was born on 15 June 1947 in Laksham, Comilla, East Bengal, British India. After the primary education from local Dattapur Primary School, SSC from Bagmara High School in 1962, later HSC from Comilla Victoria Government College, and B.Com degree from Chittagong Government Commerce College in 1964–1967. In 1967 he finished his undergraduate in Commerce from the University of Dhaka. He completed his masters in accounting in 1968 from the University of Dhaka. He also earned a law degree. He is also a FCA

Career

Politics

Kamal was elected to Parliament from Comilla-9 in 1996. He was elected to his second term as a member of the Jatiya Sangsad for the constituency of Comilla-10 in 2008 and 2014. He is Convener of Bangladesh Awami League in the Comilla district. He is also the Finance and Planning Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League. He was appointed the Minister for Planning in January 2014.
Mr kamal has been criticised for his role in burning down opposition candidate house and business just before election. Also his threat to opposition leader to get out of his constituency of face severe consequences went .

Cricket administration

Kamal has been involved with cricket and its development for last 30 years in various capacities. From 1990-2010 he was chairman of the cricket committee of Abahani Limited, before becoming the President of Asian Cricket Council between 2010 and 2012.
In 2012, Kamal was named as the vice-president of the International Cricket Council for the 2012–2014 term. Prior to his nomination for the ICC, Kamal was the president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board. Kamal succeeded Alan Isaac as president of the ICC in 2014.
Kamal resigned from his designation as ICC President, with effect from 1 April 2015. The resignation was reportedly to protest alleged non-compliance by the ICC of laws written in the constitution of the ICC, and he was an active protester of corruption in cricket.

Personal life

Kamal's daughter Nafisa Kamal is the director of Farmers Bank and wife is Kasmiri Kamal.