After graduating from high school in 1989, he joined worked as a locksmith at the motor depot of the Kuybyshevsky District Agricultural Administration.

In the 2004 and 2007 legislative elections, Qongyrov was amongst people that ran for MP from the QKHP for the lower house Mazhilis, though the party failed to win any seats during its early years.

It wasn't until in 2012, as the QKHP managed to bypass the needed electoral threshold to enter the parliament resulted in Qongyrov being elected as a lawmaker.

[2] In April 2019, Qongyrov stated that he considered running for president in the 2019 Kazakh presidential election, however, the QKHP chose Jambyl Ahmetbekov who had previously ran in 2011 to be the candidate.

[4] Qongyrov in 2014 during an interview with Vlast.kz insisted that the Kazakh government wouldn't allow gay parades nor legalise same-sex marriage to influence the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in letting Kazakhstan hold the 2022 Winter Olympics while not ruling out the possibility of dropping Olympic bid, calling the IOC's demands "unfounded", asserting that the Kazakh society is against same-sex marriage and that the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan (QKHP) would "unequivocally oppose it.