[1] Abdul Hoque was born in 1930, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Bhatgaon in Chhatak (then under Sylhet district, British Raj).
[1][2] During the 1970 Pakistani general election, Abdul Hoque ran as an Awami League candidate from the NE-128 (Sylhet-IX) constituency which covered the thanas of Chhatak (which then included both Dowarabazar and Companiganj) and Jagannathpur.
On the same night, a meeting was held involving the senior politicians of Sunamganj subdivision at the home of Dewan Obaidur Raja Chowdhury.
The All-Parties Independent Bengal Council was formed by Chowdhury as a result of the meeting, and its members included Abdus Samad Azad, Abdul Hoque, Suranjit Sengupta, Abdur Raees, Abduz Zahur, Shamsu Mia Chowdhury, Awami League leader Husayn Bakht, NAP leader Ali Yunus, Abdul Quddus and Alfatuddin Ahmad.
The accident occurred in Tuker Bazar on his way back to Sunamganj in a private car from a Sangram Committee meeting at the Sylhet Circuit House.
Through the efforts of politician Mohibur Rahman Manik, a memorial was made at Banshtala, the headquarters of Liberation Sector Five, and the area was renamed to Hoqnagar (City of Hoque) in 1996.