He was a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Jamalpur-4 constituency and state minister of power.

[1] Talukdar served in the Bangladesh Army and retired as a major general.

[5][6] Talukdar resigned from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on 26 October 2006.

He joined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) formed that year by him, AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury and Oli Ahmed.

[7] Talukdar was the nephew of Abdus Salam Talukder (1936–1999), a former minister and a secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.