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Abu Nasar Khan Choudhury

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Abu Nasar Khan Choudhury
Minister of State for Science and Technology, Government of West Bengal
In office
20 May 2011 – September 2012
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office
2009–2016
Preceded byMausam Noor
Succeeded byIsha Khan Choudhury
ConstituencySujapur
Personal details
Born (1935-10-22) 22 October 1935 (age 89)
Political partyIndian National Congress
Residence(s)Sahazalalpur, Malda
Alma materUniversity 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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ "Ministers in Mamata's Cabinet". Government of West Bengal. 21 May 2011. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
    - "Mamata allots portfolios, keeps key ministries", IBN Live, 21 May 2011
    - Abhijit Dasgupta, "All the Didi's men", India Today, 22 May 2009
  2. ^ "6 Congress ministers quit, withdraw support to the Mamata government". rediff.com, 22 September 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
  3. ^ Zaidul Haque. "Muslim Ministers of West Bengal:An introduction". TwoCircles.net. Retrieved 25 July 2014.