Chowdhury Moyezuddin Biwshash

Moyezuddin supported the Indian National Congress He was involved with the Founding of the Indian National Congress in the mid 1880s and also with the establishment of People's Association of Faridpur in 1883. He also played a significant role in creating the District Council of Faridpur and inspiring creation of similar councils across several other districts of Bengal paving the way for participation of local leaders in the governance of their regions along with the Briish Government. He had also played a significant role in promoting re-unification of Bengal between 1906 and 1911 after the Bongo Bhongo enactment. He is also known to have been involved with the Sepoy Revolution of 1857 where he had supported rebel forces in Rangpur area. He is credited with bringing a lot of infrastructural development to Faridpur city and also abolition of many racist practices and promulgation of many humanitarian and social initiatives, such as establishment of schools, orphanages, student boardings and even school for female students. He enjoyed a very high level of popularity.

He was the son of Chowdhury Moquimuddin Bishwash, Zamindar of Chanpur Estate of Faridpur and 9th descendant of Arafat Ali who had been assigned as Jagirdar in circa 1630 during Mughal rule. His family is known to have originated from Turkey, having come to India in the 12th century AD. Some claims are there that prior to Turkey, the ancestors of the family had migrated in from Siberia and may have had linkage with the Mongol tribes as well. His sons and grandchildren engaged in Bengali Muslim politics in the era of the Raj and Pakistan, and in independent Bangladesh. His eldest son Chowdhury Abdallah Zaheeruddin was a federal minister of the Pakistani government, while another son Enayet Hossain Chowdhury was a member of Pakistan's National Assembly and a in the 1960s. His second son, Yusuf Ali Chowdhury (commonly known as Mohan Mia) was a figure in the Muslim League and an influential kingmaker in East Pakistani politics. He had been instrumental in the formation of Jukto Front in 1953 and had been one of the key nominators and mentors of a whole batch of new politicians who he helped to induct into politics at that stage and aided them in the 1954 election where the Jukto Front achieved a landslide victory against Muslim League. This incident in particular paved the way for Mohon Mia to be called King-Maker of Bengal. He was also a Provincial Minister during the Jukto Front tenure for a biref period. Chowdhury Moyezuddin Bishwash's grandson Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf was also a very prominent political leader from the mid 1970s till his demise in 2021. [2]