Moinul Choudhury was born on 13 May 1923 in a well-off
Bengali Muslim family of
Sonabarighat in
Cachar district of Assam. He was born to mother Mona Bibi and father Montajir Ali. His father Montazir Ali was educated, and was always concerned about getting his son well educated. Choudhury took his primary education from ME School of Sonabraighat. He passed Matriculation from Silchar Government HS School and later joined
Cotton College, Guwahati/
Murari Chand College of
Sylhet and passed +2 in 1942. He graduated with History Honors from
Presidency College of
Calcutta in 1944. In the Presidency, he defeated
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the college election. He pursued MA in History securing first class first position from
Aligarh Muslim University in 1946. This was when he joined
Muslim League and took part in the
Indian independence movement. He was also the general secretary of youth front of Muslim League on the national level. In 1947, he obtained LLB from Aligarh Muslim University. In a meeting with
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Moinul Hoque Choudhury represented Barak Valley. Inspired by the ideals of Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose and
Moulana Abul Kalam Azad, Hoque joined the freedom struggle. Following India's independence and the partition of India, he joined
Indian National Congress under the influence of
Fakaruddin Ali Ahmed. To start off his career, Moinul Hoque Choudhury joined the
Bar Association of
Silchar in 1948 and later in 1950, he joined active politics as a member of local board in 1950 and was a nominated member of Silchar Municipality in the same year. He became a member of
Assam Legislative Assembly in 1952 from East Sonai constituency. Moinul Hoque became a cabinet minister (agriculture) in 1957 after being elected for the second time from the same constituency. On being elected for the third term in 1962, he became the leader of the Congress legislature in the assembly in addition to being a cabinet minister. In 1967. He was elected for the fourth time as MLA from Sonai Constituency, but was abstained from ministerial portfolio following a feud with
Bimala Prasad Chaliha. He was selected as chairman of national
Haj Committee in the same year. He entered the national politics in 1971 by returning to the parliament from Dhubri and was offered the ministry of industry under the Government of India. There have been many in Barak valley who have been hugely influenced and inspired by him, particularly the Muslim men. His own younger brother
Nurul Hoque also became MLA from
Sonai . == Work ==