[4] From 1937 to 1941, he was the general secretary of the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee during the presidency of Subhash Chandra Bose.
He was one of the closest allies of Bose and played an instrumental role in organising Bengal Congress at that time.
He was also the first non-British chairman of the District Board of Tipperah (Comilla) and was a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly.
Chowdhury stood as a candidate of the Nizam-e-Islam Party as part of the United Front alliance during the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, in which he gained a seat in his home constituency of Comilla.
[1] He left behind his wife, Razia Khatun Chowdhurani, a poet and litterateur, and their daughter Rabeya Chowdhury, a prominent politician of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.