He resigned from the ministry when Congress withdrew its support to the Mamata Banerjee government in September 2012.[2]
Education
After his matriculation in 1951 and graduation from Malda College in 1956, Choudhury went abroad. He completed his initial postgraduate study from the University of Liverpool in 1965 and an MPhil in 1976 from the University of Leicester, England. He obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Zurich in Switzerland in 1986.[3]