Syed Kamal Bakht (1930 – 15 December 2000) was a Bangladeshi politician and a Member of Parliament of

Satkhira-1 Satkhira-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Mustafa Lutfullah of the Workers Party of Bangladesh The Workers Party of Bangladesh ( bn, বাংলাদেশের ওয� ...

Early life

Syed Kamal Bakht was born in 1930, to a renowned Bengali Muslim Syed family also known as the

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Satkhira Satkhira( bn, সাতক্ষীরা) is a city and district headquarter of Satkhira District in Khulna Division, south-west Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. I ...

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. As a part of the Muslim Student League, he took part in the Bengali language movement.

Career

Bakht successfully won a seat in the

1970 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 7 December 1970 to elect members of the National Assembly. They were the first general elections since the independence of Pakistan and ultimately the only ones held prior to the independence of Bang ...

s but did not become a member of the

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due to the outbreak of the

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. He played an important role as a freedom fighter. He was elected to parliament from Khulna-13 as an

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candidate following the

1973 Bangladeshi general election General elections were held in newly independent Bangladesh on 7 March 1973. The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Awami League, who won 293 of the 300 seats, including eleven constituencies where they were elected unopposed without a vote. ...

s. He lost this seat in the next election to M. Mansur Ali but regained it in 1986 when the constituency was renamed to Satkhira-1. He served in this second term until 1988, in which he lost it to his relative

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of the Jatiya Party. At the

1991 Bangladeshi general election General elections were held in Bangladesh on 27 February 1991. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) emerged as the largest party in parliament, winning 140 of the 300 directly-elected seats. The BNP formed a government with the support of the I ...

, Bakht again lost, this time to

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politician

Ansar Ali Ansar Ali (died 6 October 2020) was a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Satkhira-1 Satkhira-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 ...

. He managed to defeat Ali at the subsequent

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Death

Bakht died of old age on 15 December 2000.

References

1930 births 2000 deaths Awami League politicians 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members 7th Jatiya Sangsad members 1st Jatiya Sangsad members People from Satkhira District Politicians from Khulna Division Bangladeshi people of Arab descent Candidates in the 1970 Pakistani general election Members of the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub