Vision

Basic Info

  • Birth: 1938 April 29 (Kannur City, Kerala, India)
  • Father: Ovintakath Abdul Khader Haji
  • Mother: Edappakath Nafeesa Beevi
  • Wife: Zuhara Valapattanam
  • Children: Dr. Fousiya Shershad, Rayees Ahamed, Naseer Ahamed
Vision

Education

  • Maadanul Uloom Madrasa
  • Thalassery BEMP School
  • Kannur Municipal High School
  • Brennen College, Tellicherry (Economics Graduate)
  • Trivandrum Law College

Positions Held

  • 1954

    MSF Malabar District General Secretary

  • 1958

    The first MSF State General Secretary

  • 1959

    Chandrika Editorial Board Member

  • 1962

    Practiced as an advocate in the Thalassery Bar and later in the Kerala High Court.

  • 1967 -1991

    17 years as Member Legislative Assembly
    (1967-Kannur, 1977 Koduvally, 1980, 1982, 1987 Tanur)

  • 1979-1983

    Kannur Municipal Chairman

    President, Deenul Islma Sabha, Kannur for 45 years

  • 1982-87

    Served as Minister of Industries, Govt. of Kerala.

  • Served as India's representative to the United Nations seven times.

  • 1995

    Elected as the National General Secretary of IUML

  • Appointed as Chandrika Executive Director

  • 2004-14

    The only one who continuously serves 10 years as Union Minister.
    (2004 – 2014, Portfolios Handled: Minister of State for External Affairs, Minister of Human Resource Development and Minister of State for Railways)

  • 2006

    IUML State General Secretary.

  • 2008

    Elected as President, IUML

  • 2017

    Death – 2017 February 1

Works

  • ഒരു വിദേശ യാത്രയും കുറേ ഓർമ്മകളും (A Foreign Trip and a Handful of Memories)
  • ഇന്ത്യൻ മുസ്ലിംകളുടെ നവോത്ഥാനത്തിന്റെ കഥ (The Story of the Renaissance of Indian Muslims)
  • ഞാനറിയുന്ന നേതാക്കൾ (The Leaders Whom I Know)
  • നിയമസഭാ പ്രസംഗങ്ങൾ (Legislative Assembly Speeches)
  • ഞാനറിയുന്ന സി.എച്ച് (The CH, Whom I Know)
  • India’s Voice at the United Nations