A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury

A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury
আবু বারকাত আতাউর গণী খান চৌধুরী


Member of Parliament for Malda
In office 1980-2006
Preceded by	Dinesh Chandra Joarder
Succeeded by	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury
Constituency	Malda
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office 1967-1980
Preceded by	Ashadulla Choudhury
Succeeded by	Humayoun Chowdhury
Constituency	Sujapur
Personal details
Born	(1927-11-01)1 November 1927 Malda, West Bengal, India
Died	14 April 2006(2006-04-14) (aged 78) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Political party	INC
Residence	Malda
Religion	Islam
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A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury (Bengali:- আবু বারকাত আতাউর গণী খান চৌধুরী) (1 November 1927 – 14 April 2006 into a Bengali Muslim family) in Malda which is in the Indian state of West Bengal with original birth full name Abu Barkat Ataur Ghani Khan Choudhury, known as Barkatda to his supporters, was a prominent politician of Indian state of West Bengal and a senior leader of Indian National Congress party. He was also the former Railway Minister of India for a short term, being the first Bengali to be the Minister of Railways in India. He worked toward establishing the Malda Town railway station as one of the most important stations of the region.

A Muslim by faith, he was first elected as an MLA to the West Bengal state legislative assembly in 1957, serving as a Cabinet Minister in the Government of West Bengal from 1972 to 1977. He was first elected to the 7th Lok Sabha in 1980, from Malda constituency. He was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1984, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2004 from the same constituency. He served as president of the West Bengal Congress and as a general secretary to the All India Congress Committee. He was the Minister of Railways in Indira Gandhi's and Rajiv Gandhi's government 1982 to 1989. He took active part in introducing the Kolkata Metro Railway and Circular Railways in the city of Kolkata.

His surviving siblings, both politicians, are Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury and Rubi Noor. Despite some allegations made by his opponents, he continues to be one of the most talked about personalities in the history of Malda.

References

↑ Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website Archived 15 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine.

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Members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Tollyganj

Presidency division MLAs Burdwan division MLAs

Railway Minister of India

John Mathai N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar Lal Bahadur Shastri Jagjivan Ram Sardar Swaran Singh Kengal Hanumanthaiah C. M. Poonacha Panampilly Govinda Menon Gulzari Lal Nanda T. A. Pai Lalit Narayan Mishra Kamalpati Tripathi Madhu Dandavate Kedar Pandey A. B. A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury Madhav Rao Scindia Janeshwar Mishra C. K. Jaffer Sheriff Suresh Kalmadi Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ram Vilas Paswan Nitish Kumar Mamata Banerjee Nitish Kumar Lalu Prasad Yadav Mamata Banerjee Mukul Roy Manmohan Singh Dinesh Trivedi Mukul Roy C. P. Joshi Pawan Kumar Bansal Mallikarjun Kharge D. V. Sadananda Gowda Suresh Prabhu

Members of the 11th to 14th Lok Sabha from West Bengal

Basudeb Acharia Basudeb Barman Hiten Barman Ranen Barman Sandhya Bauri Susmita Bauri Anil Basu Joachim Baxla Krishna Bose Subrata Bose Sudip Bandyopadhyay Mamata Banerjee Ajay Chakraborty Sujan Chakraborty Swadesh Chakraborty Santasri Chatterjee Somnath Chatterjee A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury Saifuddin Choudhury Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Bansa Gopal Chowdhury Bikash Chowdhury Alakesh Das Gurudas Dasgupta Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi Ram Chandra Dome Sudhir Kumar Giri Indrajit Gupta Abul Hasnat Khan Samik Lahiri Moinul Hassan Abdul Mannan Hossain Bir Singh Mahato Sanat Kumar Mandal Hannan Mollah Geeta Mukherjee Pranab Mukherjee Satyabrata Mookherjee Rupchand Murmu Amitava Nandy Dawa Narbula Prabodh Panda Ajit Kumar Panja Rupchand Pal Amarendra Nath Roy Pradhan Prasanta Pradhan Mohammed Salim Lakshman Chandra Seth Minati Sen Jyotirmoyee Sikdar Tapan Sikdar Tarit Baran Topdar

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Members of the 1st to 10th Lok Sabha from West Bengal

Zainal Abedin Basudeb Acharia Mamata Banerjee Anil Basu Chitta Basu Kamal Basu Joachim Baxla Nani Bhattacharya Renu Chakravartty Somnath Chatterjee A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury Sachindra Chaudhuri Tridib Chaudhuri Pratap Chandra Chunder Basanta Kumar Das Mono Mohan Das Biplab Dasgupta Khagendra Nath Dasgupta Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi Sushil Kumar Dhara Ram Chandra Dome Atulya Ghosh Ganesh Ghosh Nalini Ranjan Ghosh Sudhir Kumar Giri Phulrenu Guha Samar Guha Indrajit Gupta Kansari Halder Lutfal Haque Dinesh Chandra Joarder Humayun Kabir Sanat Kumar Mandal Abha Maiti Hannan Mollah Geeta Mukherjee Hirendranath Mukherjee Samar Mukherjee Amar Roy Pradhan Debi Prasad Pal Rupchand Pal Ajit Kumar Panja Renuka Ray Siddhartha Shankar Ray Saugata Roy Satish Chandra Samanta Nikhilananda Sar Ashoke Kumar Sen Prafulla Chandra Sen Atish Chandra Sinha Chowdhury Abu Taleb Pius Tirkey Tarit Baran Topdar Golam Yazdani Mahboob Zahedi

11-14th LS members

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