Prime Minister Narendra Modi mourns TMC MP Sultan Ahmed's death
“Saddened on the demise of LS MP and former Union Minister Shri Sultan Ahmed. My thoughts are with his family and supporters in this sad hour,”the Prime Minister said.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP from Uluberia Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal's Howrah district, Sultan Ahmed, 64, died of a massive cardiac arrest on Monday, reports said.
According to reports, the senior TMC lawmaker suffered a sudden cardiac arrest at around 11:25 am. at his Kolkata residence and he was rushed to Belle Vue Clinic in south part of the city, where Sultan Ahmed was pronounced dead at 12:15 pm.
Sultan Ahmed was born on June 5 in 1953 in Kolkata's Ripon Street area and he completed his graduation from city's Maulana Azad College.
During his college days, he had started his political career after joining Congress's student wing Chhatra Parishad (CP) and later he joined its youth wing, Yuva Congress.
He was selected as the Kolkata district secretary of Yuva Congress from 1978 to 1980.
Sultan Ahmed became a lawmaker (MLA) for the first time in 1987 after he won West Bengal assembly election from Entally Vidhan Sabha constituency and he was reelected in 1996 election from the same centre.
Ahmed was the founder-member of Trinamool Congress.
He was the Union Minister of State for Tourism in the Manmohan Singh government from 2009 to 2012.
Meanwhile, Ahmed was the working president of Kolkata's one of the oldest and leading football clubs, Mohammedan Sporting Club.
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