Background
Kamaruzzaman was born in 1926 in the city of Rajshahi in the province of Bengal (now in Bangladesh).
Kamaruzzaman was born in 1926 in the city of Rajshahi in the province of Bengal (now in Bangladesh).
University of Calcutta.
He obtained degrees in economics from the University of Calcutta in 1946, and a law degree from the Rajshahi University in 1956. He began practising law after his induction in the Rajshahi District bar association. Kamaruzzaman joined the Awami League in 1956.
He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1962, 1965 and again in 1970.
During the Bangladesh Liberation War, Kamaruzzaman served as the minister of relief and rehabilitation in the provisional government of Bangladesh formed at Mujibnagar. The minister of home affairs in Mujib"s cabinet, the first home minister of independent Bangladesh, he resigned on January 18, 1974 to serve as president of the Awami League.
After the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975 Qamaruzzaman was arrested by the regime of the new president Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad and imprisoned in the Dhaka Central Jail with Tajuddin Ahmed, Syed Nazrul Islam and Mansur Ali. These four senior Awami League politicians were killed on 3 November 1975, by army officers who were responsible for Mujib"s death.
A member of the Mujibnagar Government, Kamaruzzaman was murdered along with Syed Nazrul Islam, Muhammad Mansur Ali and Tajuddin Ahmed in the infamous jail killings in Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975. In 1975, Kamaruzzaman was appointed minister of industries and a member of the executive committee of BAKSAL.