Biography of moinul haque choudhury book

Moinul Hoque Choudhury (– 13 February ) was an Indian politician from Assam.

He is also known as the Industrial Reformer of the Barak Valley. He was born to mother Mona Bibi and father Montajir Ali. His father Montazir Ali was educated, and was always concerned about getting his son well educated. Choudhury took his primary education from ME School of Sonabraighat. In the Presidency, he defeated Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the college election.

This was when he joined Muslim League and took part in the Indian independence movement. He was also the general secretary of youth front of Muslim League on the national level. To start off his career, Moinul Hoque Choudhury joined the Bar Association of Silchar in and later in , he joined active politics as a member of local board in and was a nominated member of Silchar Municipality in the same year.

Moinul Hoque became a cabinet minister agriculture in after being elected for the second time from the same constituency. On being elected for the third term in , he became the leader of the Congress legislature in the assembly in addition to being a cabinet minister. In He was elected for the fourth time as MLA from Sonai Constituency, but was abstained from ministerial portfolio following a feud with Bimala Prasad Chaliha.

He was selected as chairman of national Haj Committee in the same year. He entered the national politics in by returning to the parliament from Dhubri and was offered the ministry of industry under the Government of India. There have been many in Barak valley who have been hugely influenced and inspired by him, particularly the Muslim men. He was the first person in Cachar to forward the proposal for the construction of Barak Dam.

He will be remembered in the valley for the noble attempt he made to usher in a green revolution in the valley through the package program in the sixties when advanced technology, high yielding seeds, scientific manure, pesticides were introduced for the first time in Cachar, and many more.