He completed his law school in Lincoln's Inn, London and joined the Dhaka bar in 1970.
He was made state minister of Law and Parliamentary Affairs in the cabinet of Ziaur Rahman in 1981.
From 1991 to 1996 he served as the Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operative in the first Khaleda Zia administration.
[citation needed] Talukder was the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on local government, cooperative and planning ministry.
After losing in the 1996 parliament election, he resigned from secretary general position of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.