Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran (Bengali: 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.
[1] 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.
[1] 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.
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.
[7] Kamran was re-elected mayor in a landslide election victory, and he had received more than 83,000 votes than his opponent.
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.