Ashrafuddin Ahmad Chowdhury
Ashrafuddin Ahmad Chowdhury (; 1894 – 25 March 1976) was a Bengali politician who had served as general secretary of the Congress Party's Bengal branch, member of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly and later as the Education Minister of Pakistan. He was an advocate of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy's United Bengal proposal. Early life Chowdhury was born in 1894, into a well-reputed Bengali Muslim family of zamindars in Batagram, Tipperah District, Bengal Presidency (now Comilla District, Bangladesh). He was a son of Tofazzal Ahmad Chowdhury, alias Anu Mia, an influential zamindar of that time. Chowdhury moved to Calcutta for his education, where he studied at the Hare School and then at the St. Xavier's Collegiate School. He completed his bachelor's degree from the Rajshahi College in North Bengal, and then completed law school at the Calcutta University in 1919. Career Chowdhury was a prominent leader in the anti-British Indian independence movement. He was involved in the Khilafat Movement and Non-cooperation Movement as an activist and the leader of the All India National Congress's Bengal branch. He became a leader of the Tippera Krishak Samiti's moderate side. From 1937 to 1941, he was the general secretary of the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee