Ashrafuddin Ahmad Chowdhury
Ashrafuddin Ahmad Chowdhury | |
|---|---|
| আশরাফউদ্দীন আহমদ চৌধুরী | |
| General Secretary of Bengal Province Congress | |
| In office 1937–1942 | |
| Member of the Ghulam Muhammad | |
| Prime Minister | Mohammad Ali Bogra |
| Education Minister of Pakistan | |
| In office 1954–1955 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1894 Calcutta University |
Ashrafuddin Ahmad Chowdhury (
East Bengal Legislative Assembly and later as the Education Minister of Pakistan.[1] He was an advocate of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy's United Bengal
proposal.
Early life
Chowdhury was born in 1894, into a well-reputed
Calcutta University in 1919.[1]
Career
Chowdhury was a prominent leader in the anti-British
Hindu-Muslim unity. He was also the first non-British chairman of the District Board of Tipperah (Comilla) and was a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
. During 1921- 1947, he served several terms of imprisonment as a political prisoner, opposing the British Raj.
In the 1940s he joined the
United Front alliance during the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, in which he gained a seat in his home constituency of Comilla. In 1954, he became the Minister of Education during the cabinet of A. K. Fazlul Huq, he became Education Minister again during the cabinet of Abu Hussain Sarkar.[1]
Death and legacy
Chowdhury died on 25 March 1976 in Bangladesh.[1] He left behind his wife, Razia Khatun Chowdhurani, a poet and litterateur, and their daughter Rabeya Chowdhury, a prominent politician of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[citation needed]