Abdur Rasheed Choudhury | |
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আব্দুর রশীদ চৌধুরী | |
Member of Indian Legislative Assembly | |
In office 1934–1944 | |
President | Sir Abdur Rahim |
Preceded by | Abdul Matin Chaudhary |
Succeeded by | Ali Asghar Khan |
Constituency | Assam (Muslim) |
Personal details | |
Born | 12 July 1895
[1] Dargapasha, Sylhet, Assam Province, British India |
Died | 4 March 1944 Sylhet, British India | (aged 48)
Spouses |
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Children | 10 Including Humayun & Faruk |
Abdur Rasheed Choudhury ( Bengali: আব্দুর রশীদ চৌধুরী; died 1944) was a Bengali politician from Sylhet.
Choudhury was born to Bengali Muslim parents from Dargapasha, Sunamganj. [2]
Chowdhury and Abdul Matin Chaudhary together established Minar Printing and Publishing Limited on 14 July 1932 which published the weekly newspaper Jugabheri. [3] Before that, he worked as an Extra Assistant Commissioner in Sylhet. [4] The editor of the newspaper was Moqbul Hussain Choudhury. [5] Chowdhury was a tea planter and owned Sirajnagar tea garden. [4] [6] He also owned Hamdard Tea Company Limited and Dilkusha tea estate. [7]
Chowdhury served in the Central Legislative Assembly of India in the 1940s as an independent politician from the Muslim block of Assam. [8] [9]
Choudhury was married to Begum Serajunnessa Choudhury (died 1974) when she was 16 as his second wife. [10] [4] He had three sons from his first marriage and seven from his second. [4] His son, Humayun Rashid Choudhury (died 10 July 2001), [11] was a diplomat and later the speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad (parliament of Bangladesh). [4] [12] His other son, Faruk Rashid Chowdhury, served as the finance minister of Bangladesh. [4] [13]
He had 10 children, among them:
Choudhury died in 1944. [4]