Abu Nasar Khan Choudhury Explained

Abu Nasar Khan Choudhury
Birth Date:22 October 1935
Residence:Sahazalalpur, Malda
Office:Minister of State for Science and Technology, Government of West Bengal
Term Start:20 May 2011
Term End:September 2012
Office2:MLA
Term Start2:2009
Term End2:2016
Constituency2:Sujapur
Predecessor2:Mausam Noor
Successor2:Isha Khan Choudhury
Party:Indian National Congress
Alma Mater:University of Zurich (Doct)

Abu Nasar Khan Choudhury is an Indian politician who was the Minister of State for Science and Technology in the Government of West Bengal. He has served as an MLA, elected from the Sujapur constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.[1]

He resigned from the ministry when Congress withdrew its support to the Mamata Banerjee government in September 2012.[2]

Education

After his matriculation in 1951 and graduation from Malda College in 1956, Choudhury went abroad. He completed his initial postgraduate study from the University of Liverpool in 1965 and an MPhil in 1976 from the University of Leicester, England. He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Zurich in Switzerland in 1986.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ministers in Mamata's Cabinet. 22 May 2011. Government of West Bengal. 21 May 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20111005213008/http://www.banglarmukh.com/portal/banglarMukh/Government/MinisterSecretary/MinisterSecretaryPortletWindow?category=M&action=e&windowstate=normal&in.gov.wb.portal.MENU_ID_PARAMETER=100&mode=view. 2011-10-05. dead.
    - "Mamata allots portfolios, keeps key ministries", IBN Live, 21 May 2011
    - Abhijit Dasgupta, "All the Didi's men", India Today, 22 May 2009
  2. Web site: 6 Congress ministers quit, withdraw support to the Mamata government . rediff.com, 22 September 2012. 25 July 2014.
  3. Web site: Muslim Ministers of West Bengal:An introduction . Zaidul Haque. TwoCircles.net . 25 July 2014.