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{{Short description|Bangladeshi politician (1951–2020)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran
| birth_date = 1 January 1951
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|06|15|1951|1|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Sylhet]], [[East Bengal]], [[Dominion of Pakistan]]
| death_place = [[Dhaka]], [[Bangladesh]]
| office = 1st [[Sylhet City Corporation|Mayor of Sylhet]]
| term_start = 12 April 2003
| term_end = 09 May 2013
| predecessor = Post Established
| primeminister =
| office2 =
| term_start2 =
| term_end2 =
| primeminister2 =
| successor2 = [[Ariful Haque Choudhury]]
| party = [[Bangladesh Awami League]]
| spouse = Asma Kamran
| death_cause = [[COVID-19]]
}}

'''Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran''' ({{lang-bn|বদর উদ্দিন আহমেদ কামরান}}; 1 January 1951 – 15 June 2020) was a Bangladeshi politician and the first mayor of [[Sylhet City]], a role he was elected to twice. In 2013, he lost to [[Ariful Haque Choudhury]] by nearly 3,000 votes. He was also a member on the standing Committee of [[Awami League]]. He died on 15 June 2020, from [[COVID-19]] at the age of 69.

== Early life ==
Kamran was born on 1 January 1951. He was elected ward commissioner of Sylhet in 1973, when he was still a high school student.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |title=Former mayor of Sylhet City Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran dies at 69|url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2020/06/15/former-mayor-of-sylhet-city-badar-uddin-ahmed-kamran-dies-at-69|url-status=live|access-date=2020-06-15|work=bdnews24.com}}</ref>

== Career ==
Kamran was elected Chairman of Sylhet municipality board in 1995. From 1989 to 2002, he served as the General Secretary of Sylhet city unit of Awami League.<ref name=":0" /> He became the mayor of [[Sylhet]] city by defeating Muhammad Abdul Haque in March 2003; In which Kamran won the election by more than 20,000 votes.<ref name=":1" /> He became the President of Sylhet City unit of Awami League.<ref name=":0" /> In 2005, while he was inaugurating a tennis court, members of [[Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh]] threw grenades at him, in an attempt to assassinate him. In November 2008, six members of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh were charged with attempting to assassinate him.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2008-11-07|title=6 Huji members charge sheeted in Sylhet mayor attack case|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-62282|access-date=2020-06-15|work=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>

Since then Kamran won the 2008 election, even though he was imprisoned, as the people have high adoration for him. He was also released from prison and had even travelled to London recently with the current prime minister Sheikh Hasina as part of her delegation. As with many politicians, there are allegations of political corruption he may have been involved with. Kamran was arrested in connection with the Kitchen Market [[Graft (politics)|Graft]] case.<ref name="the daily star web edition">
{{cite news

| title = ... Sylhet Mayor Kamran arrested again...
| work = The Daily Star
| date = 29 May 2007
| url = http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/05/29/d7052901011.htm }}</ref><ref name="united news of bangladesh">
{{cite news
| title = Sylhet City mayor Badar Uddin Kamran arrested
| work = United News of Bangladesh
| date = 6 April 2007
| url = http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-30258481_ITM }}</ref>

Although he obtained bail in the case, Kamran was being detained in another case filed under the Emergency Powers Rules. The ''[[Prothom Alo]]'' published a series of reports of Kamran's corruption during his time in office.<ref name="the daily prothom alo">
{{cite news
| title = sylheter mayorer joto durniti
| language = bengali
| work = Prothom Alo
| date = 3–4 July 2008 }}</ref> Albeit he submitted his nomination form in order to compete for the 2008 mayoral election run. He was viewed by voters as being unjustly targeted by the military backed [[Caretaker government of Bangladesh|Caretaker government]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2008-08-03|title=Kamran looks stronger from behind bars|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-48715|access-date=2020-06-15|work=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref> Kamran was re-elected mayor in a landslide election victory, and he had received more than 83,000 votes than his opponent. On 17 August 2008, he was moved from Comilla Central Jail to Sylhet Central Jail. He resigned from Awami League on 31 August and on 5 September 2008, he was released on bail from jail.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2008-09-05|title=Mayor Kamran freed on bail|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-53390|access-date=2020-06-15|work=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>

Kamran lost the mayoral election in 2013 to [[Ariful Haque Choudhury]], and he also contested the mayoral election again in 2018 and lost to Ariful Haque Choudhury.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2018-08-12|title=People elected me braving conspiracy|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/politics/sylhet-city-corporation-election-voting-begins-two-centres-peacefully-1619161|access-date=2020-06-15|work=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Kamran was married to Asma Kamran.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |url=http://www.daylife.com/photo/0dEEfET1Uj11K |title=Daylife photo (Reuters) |access-date=2009-03-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219203057/http://www.daylife.com/photo/0dEEfET1Uj11K |archive-date=2012-02-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Asma tested positive for COVID-19 with her husband in 2020.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Sylhet mayor in quarantine, ex-mayor's wife affected|url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/107183/sylhet-mayor-in-quarantine-ex-mayors-wife-affected|access-date=2020-06-15|work=New Age|language=en}}</ref> Kamran had returned to Bangladesh from the United Kingdom on 5 March 2020. Despite being required to be in quarantine, he was seen attending a number of political programs in Dhaka and Sylhet.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-03-19|title=AL leader Kamran violates home quarantine, attends program with PM|url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2020/03/19/al-leader-kamran-violates-home-quarantine-attends-programme-with-pm|access-date=2020-06-15|work=Dhaka Tribune}}</ref> He afterwards apologized for violating quarantine.<ref>{{Cite news |last=|first=|date=|title=Kamran apologises for violating self-quarantine|url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/102809/kamran-apologises-for-violating-self-quarantine|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-15|work=New Age|language=en}}</ref>

== Death ==
Kamran died on 15 June 2020, at the [[Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka]]. He tested positive for [[COVID-19]] during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh]] on 5 June 2020, and was admitted to Sylhet Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital. As his condition deteriorated, he was transferred to [[Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka]] by air ambulance on 7 June 2020. He was pronounced dead on 15 June 2020, at 3:43am while being treated at [[Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka]]. He was buried in his hometown, [[Sylhet]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Former mayor of Sylhet City Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran dies at 69|url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2020/06/15/former-mayor-of-sylhet-city-badar-uddin-ahmed-kamran-dies-at-69|access-date=2020-06-15|work=bdnews24.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-06-07|title=Covid-19: Ex-Sylhet mayor Kamran airlifted to Dhaka|url=https://tbsnews.net/coronavirus-chronicle/covid-19-bangladesh/covid-19-ex-sylhet-mayor-kamran-airlifted-dhaka-90061|access-date=2020-06-15|work=The Business Standard|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-06-08|title=Former Sylhet mayor Kamran to undergo plasma therapy|url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/health/coronavirus/2020/06/08/former-sylhet-mayor-kamran-to-undergo-plasma-therapy|access-date=2020-06-15|work=Dhaka Tribune}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:2020 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Sylhet]]
[[Category:1951 births]]
[[Category:Awami League politicians]]
[[Category:Mayors of Sylhet]]
[[Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh]]

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