Shakeel Ahmad

Shakeel Ahmad
Shakeel Ahmad as the Minister of State for Communications & Information Technology in New Delhi on 24 May 2004
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs
In office
6 April 2008 – 23 May 2009
Prime MinisterManmohan Singh
Preceded byV. Radhika Selvi
Succeeded byMullappally Ramachandran
Union Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology
In office
23 May 2004 – 6 April 2008
Prime MinisterManmohan Singh
Preceded byAshok Kumar Pradhan
Succeeded byJyotiraditya Scindia
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
16 May 2004 – 16 May 2009
Preceded byHukmdev Narayan Yadav
Succeeded byHukmdev Narayan Yadav
ConstituencyMadhubani
In office
10 March 1998 – 26 April 1999
Preceded byChaturanan Mishra
Succeeded byHukmdev Narayan Yadav
ConstituencyMadhubani
President of Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee
In office
2000–2003
Preceded byChandan Bagchi
Succeeded byRamjatan Sinha
Minister of Health
Government of Bihar
In office
11 March 2000 – 6 March 2005
Chief MinisterRabri Devi
Preceded byDr. Mahaveer Prasad
Succeeded byShakuni Choudhury
Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly
In office
5 March 1985 – 28 March 1995
Preceded byRaj Kumar Purbe
Succeeded byRamchandra Yadav
ConstituencyBisfi
In office
11 March 2000 – 6 March 2005
Preceded byRamchandra Yadav
Succeeded byHaribhushan Thakur
ConstituencyBisfi
Personal details
Born (1956-01-02) 2 January 1956
PartyIndian National Congress
(1985-2025)[1]
RelationsAhmad Ghafoor
Parent(s)Shakoor Ahmad, Hajra Khatoon
Alma materS.K. Medical College, Muzaffarpur Bihar
As of 26 September, 2006

Shakeel Ahmad (born 2 January 1956)[2] was a member of the 12th and 14th Lok Sabha of India, along with serving as a cabinet minister in the government of Bihar and leading the Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee. He was also general secretary of the Indian National Congress (INC) and a union Minister of State.

Political career

Ahmad was first elected as a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1985, from the constituency of Bisfi. He was thereafter in 1990 and 2000 from the same constituency. In the Legislative Assembly, he served in the Third Rabri Devi ministry as the state’s Minister of Health. He was elected to Lok Sabha in 1998 and again in 2004, from Madhubani.[3]

In his Lok Sabha tenure, he served in the Manmohan Singh ministry as a Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, along with Communications and Information Technology. He was defeated in the 2009 general election by his predecessor Hukmdev Narayan Yadav of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Congress veteran Shakeel Ahmad quits party after Bihar polls; keeps the faith, not the company". theprint.in. 11 November 2025. Retrieved 16 November 2025.
  2. ^ "Biographical Sketch - Member of Parliament - XII Lok Sabha". parliamentofindia.nic.in. National Informatics Centre. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Sixteenth Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile". National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 5 August 2014.