[1] Habibur Rahman was born in 1919, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Ratanpur in Chatul Pargana, Kanaighat, North Sylhet, British Raj.
[citation needed] At the 1946 Indian provincial elections, he stood up as an All-India Muslim League candidate for the Jaintia constituency.
In 1954, Habibur Rahman joined the Awami League and became the president of the party's Sylhet District Committee until his death.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman appeared at Darbasta Bazar in Jaintiapur to make public connections for him in the service.
[citation needed] Habibur Rahman successfully won a seat in the 1970 Pakistani general elections but did not become a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan due to the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War.