Nural Hoda Choudhury | |
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নূরুল হুদা চৌধুরী | |
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | |
In office 1965–1969 | |
Preceded by | Abbas Ali Khan |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Constituency | Dinajpur-cum-Bogra |
Personal details | |
Born | Bengal Presidency |
Political party | Muslim League |
Nural Hoda Choudhury ( Bengali: নূরুল হুদা চৌধুরী) was a Bengali politician and Pakistan Movement leader based in Dinajpur. He was a member of the 4th National Assembly of Pakistan. [1]
Nural Hoda was born into a Bengali Muslim family of Choudhuries in the village of Rajarampur in Fulbari, Dinajpur District, Bengal Presidency. [2] His father, Sharfuddin Choudhury, was the founder of Rajarampur Primary School (est. 1913) in which Muhammad Shahidullah briefly taught at. [3]
Choudhury joined the Pakistan Movement and became a founding member of the Dinajpur District Muslim League in 1937. [4] He was later made the vice-president of the Dinajpur Muslim League. He also served as the vice-chairman of the Dinajpur District Board and was a representative member for the Radcliffe-Roedad Mission. [3]
Choudhury was elected to the Dinajpur-cum-Bogra constituency as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan following the 1965 elections under the Basic Democracy system. [5] He contested in the 1970 Pakistani general election as a Muslim League candidate for the Dinajpur-5 constituency, losing to Shah Mahatab Ahmad of the Awami League. [6] He is credited for the establishing the three-storey student accommodation at Fulbari College. [7]
Choudhury had a son named Lauha-Manav Muhammad Ali Choudhury Badshah. [8]