Lutfur Rahman Kajal

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|name = Lutfur Rahman Kajal

|office = Member of Parliament

|term_start = 5 January 2009

|term_end = 28 January 2014

|predecessor = Mohammad Sahiduzzaman

|successor = Shaimum Sarwar Kamal

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|party = Bangladesh Nationalist Party

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Lutfur Rahman Kajal is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament from Cox's Bazar-3.

Early life

Kajal was born on 18 November 1960. He has a B.com degree.{{cite web |title=Constituency 296 |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/get-involved/110-mps-category/mps-of-9th-parliament/972-constituency-296 |website=Bangladesh Parliament |access-date=7 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126031623/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/get-involved/110-mps-category/mps-of-9th-parliament/972-constituency-296 |archive-date=26 November 2023}}

Career

Kajal was elected to parliament in 2008 from Cox's Bazar-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina blamed him for the 2012 Ramu violence in which Muslims attacked Buddhist residents of Ramu Upazila.{{cite news |title=PM points finger at BNP MP |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/pm-points-finger-at-bnp-mp |access-date=7 January 2019 |work=bdnews24.com |date=8 October 2012 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Uttam's mother, aunt freed |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-254417 |access-date=7 January 2019 |work=The Daily Star |date=19 October 2012 |language=en}}

Kajal's restaurant was vandalized by activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League along with the nearby Bangladesh Nationalist Party office in July 2024 during the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement.{{Cite news |date=2024-07-16 |title=AL, JSD office vandalised in Cox's Bazar |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/rights/news/al-jsd-office-vandalised-coxs-bazar-3658646 |access-date=2024-07-16 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}

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