Kazi Nabil Ahmed (born 4 October 1969) is a

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politician and a former

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member representing the

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constituency during 2014–2024. Ahmed is the Vice President of the

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and the chairman of National Team's Committee as of December 2020. He is a director of Gemcon Group.

Early life

Ahmed was born on 4 October 1969. He graduated from St. Joseph Higher Secondary School in Dhaka. He went to the US for higher education.

Career

Ahmed served as the director of Kazi & Kazi Tea Estate Limited in 2003. Ahmed was the chairperson of National Teams Committee in 2012. Ahmed was elected to Parliament from Jessore-3 unopposed as an Awami League candidate in an election boycotted by all other major political parties. In 2016, Ahmed was the president of the

. He was elected vice-president of the Bangladesh Football Federation in that year's election. Ahmed was nominated by Awami League to contest from Jessore-3 in 2018. Ahmed was re-elected in the election. He got 361 thousand votes which is about 330 thousand more votes than his closest opponent, Anindya Islam Amit of

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, who received 31 thousand votes. Ahmed is the director-in-charge of

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. He stated that for the development of Bangladesh there was no alternative to

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in January 2021 at a program in Jessore. On 7 February 2021, he took the first COVID-19 vaccine in Jessore District and started the vaccination process. He has been missing since the fall of

's government on 5 August 2024. His house, located in his native village in Jessore, was vandalized and set ablaze by locals.

References

Living people 1969 births Bangladeshi businesspeople Alumni of St. Joseph Higher Secondary School Awami League politicians 11th Jatiya Sangsad members 10th Jatiya Sangsad members 12th Jatiya Sangsad members {{Khulna-AL-politician-stub