Sultan Ahmed (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
About Sultan Ahmed (politician)
- Sultan Ahmed (6 June 1953 – 4 September 2017) was an Indian politician and the Union Minister of State for Tourism in the Manmohan Singh government.
- He was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Uluberia (Lok Sabha constituency) on a Trinamool Congress ticket.
- He had previously been a 2-time Congress MLA for Entally ( in 1987–91 and once again in 1996–2001). Sultan Ahmed joined the Chatra Parishad (student wing of INC) while studying at Maulana Azad College in 1969 and the Youth Congress in 1973.
- He was District Secretary of Youth Congress from 1978–80.
- Sultan Ahmed also was one of the founding-members of Trinamool Congress in 1998.
- He had been secretary of Mohammedan Sporting Club, Kolkata, and later President.
- Ahmed also served as president of Calcutta Muslim Orphanage and got many reforms in the body.
- He was also president of Muslim Institute and a member of All India Muslim Personal Law Board .
- He was renowned for his work in various other Minority Organisations in Kolkata.
- He served as a chairman of West Bengal Minority Development and Finance Corporation.Sultan Ahmed died on Monday, 4 September 2017 at the age of 64 of cardiac arrest.
- He had gone into cardiac arrest at his home at about 11:15 to 11:30 am.
- He was rushed to a Belle Vue Clinic in Kolkata where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
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