E Ahmed, president of the Muslim league and former union minister who died in a Delhi hospital early Wednesday was a consummate politician and skilled crisis negotiator who remained indifferent to swings in fortunes. Ahamed was a member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly for 18 years and Lok Sabha MP for 25 years. Ahamed loved football in his younger days, which eventually led him to become a sports journalist while in college. He wrote football match reports for Chandrika, the mouthpiece of his party. Once this correspondent wrote a report that questioned the government’s Haj operations when he was the junior foreign minister.

Source: Hindustan Times February 01, 2017 07:18 UTC