[1][2][3] He has been missing, along with his brother Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury (Nixon) and other family members, since the resignation of his aunt Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024.
[4] His father was a politician and came from a zamindar family, whilst his mother, Sheikh Feroza Begum, was a housewife.
Chowdhury had Iraqi Arab ancestry through both of his grandmothers, who were direct descendants of the 17th-century Muslim preacher Sheikh Abdul Awal of Baghdad.
[8] Chowdhury contested in the subsequent by-election after the death of his father and was elected to parliament as an Awami League candidate in September 1991.
[20] In 2018, Chowdhury was re-elected in the rigged election[21] to parliament as a candidate of the Awami League from Madaripur-1.