He was the former two-time member of the Assam Legislative Assembly for the Karimganj South constituency.
[3] According to a handwritten manuscript by his grandfather's elder brother Abdul Hai Choudhury, the family was descended from Gawhar Khan, a nobleman from Badakhshan.
Khan was said to have given up his wealth to his younger brother, and become a da'i in Hindustan, taking with him a handwritten ancestral mus'haf by Mir Husayn (dating to 1056 AH / 1647 CE), gilded by Muhammad Yusuf Ali.
The emperor granted him jagirs near the village of Kaliganj, near present-day Karimganj district.
He won a seat in the Karimganj South constituency after participating in the 1962 Assam Legislative Assembly election.