Party Name : Indian National Congress
Constituency : Malda
State : West Bengal
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 8 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 14
Father's Name : Late Shri Khan Bahadur H.B. Khan Choudhury
Mother's Name :
Date of birth : 01 Nov 1927
Profession : Social Worker
Positions held :
1952, 1967, 1969, 1971 1972 & 1977 Member, West Bengal Legislative Assembly (six terms)1971 and 1972-77 Minister, Government of West Bengal (two terms)1978-80 President, Pradesh Congress Committee (Indira) [P.C.C.(I)], West Bengal1980 Elected to 7th Lok Sabha1980-82 Union Cabinet Minister, Energy with additional charge of Department of Coal and Irrigation1981-85 Member, Congress Working Committee and Congress Paliamentary Party1982-84 Union Cabinet Minister, Railways1984 Re-elected to 8th Lok Sabha (2nd term)1985 General-Secretary, All India Congress Committee (Indira) [A.I.C.C.(I)]1985-87 Union Minister, Programme Implementation1989 Re-elected to 9th Lok Sabha (3rd term)1988-90 and 1998-2000 President, West Bengal, Pradesh Congress Committee1991 Re-elected to 10th Lok Sabha (4th term)1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (5th term)1996-97 Member, Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (6th term)1998-99 Member, Committee on RailwaysMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Water Resources1999 Re-elected to 13th Lok Sabha (7th term)1999-2004 Member, Committee on Energy1999-2000 & 2000-2001 Member, Committee on Estimates2000-2005 Member, Congress Working Committee2002-2004 Member, Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament2004 Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (8th term)Member, Committee on Energy (Sub Committee-III on Non-conventional Energy Sources)
More Information :
Social And Cultural Activities
Rural development
Countries Visited
Canada, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, U.K. (London), U.S.A., U.S.S.R..; Member, Indian Delegation to UN, 1972 in connection with admission of Bangladesh to the world body, and again in 1976 in connection with Farakka Water Dispute
