Shakeel Ahmad

Shakeel Ahmad 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 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.
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.