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TMC MP Sultan Ahmed passes away in Kolkata

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TMC MP Sultan Ahmed passed away on Monday in Kolkata at the age of 64 after prolonged illness. Born in Kolkata, Ahmed was the Union Minister of State for Tourism in the Manmohan Singh government. He was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Uluberia on a Trinamool Congress ticket.

TMC MP Sultan Ahmed passes away in Kolkata

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 1997.

He was earlier secretary of Mohammedan Sporting Club, Kolkata, but his appointment as an acting minister, he has been made President.

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