Moinuddin Ahmed Chowdhury (1 February 1921 – 24 December 1998) was a politician in East Pakistan, social benefactor, and member of the Ghugudanga Zamindar family.
[1] During the last part of the British rule, Ghugudanga Estate was the most important amongst the Muslim Zemindars within undivided Dinajpur district comprising 30 police stations.
[citation needed] Moinuddin Ahmed Chowdhury was born on 1 February 1921, in the Zemindar family at Ghugudanga village of Auliapur Union No.
He came from Jalpaiguri by river, built his house at a place named Patharghata a bit upstream from Ghugudanga, and started trading in rice and paddy.
Subsequently, his son Ful Mohammad Chowdhury purchased many Zemindari's gradually and, after shifting himself from Patharghata, he built a Zemindar's Lodge at Ghugudanga for permanent habitation.
[citation needed] Moinuddin Ahmed Chowdhury passed his matriculation examination from Dinajpur Zilla School in the 1937 and acquired his B.A.
[citation needed] Moinuddin Ahmed Chowdhury's married Fatema Begum, the eldest daughter of late Md.
[citation needed] At the time of British rule in colonial India, he had anti-British sentiments and affiliated himself with the Pakistan movement of the then—Muslim League.
[citation needed] Consequent to the starting of widespread carnage on the night of 25 March 1971 by Pakistani raiders, he helped in setting up of a camp for the freedom fighters at Ghugudanga Zemindar's Lodge and, arranged for their food and shelter.
At that time he presided over an assemblage of Bangladeshis living abroad at a place named Mohipal Dighi under Kusumundi Police Station of the then West Dinajpur, India.