Former minister of state for external affairs E Ahamed fainted in Parliament just as the budget session began on Tuesday.
His close aide told Outlook that Ahamed has been admitted in the ICU of the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in critical condition. He suffered from cardiac arrest.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi enquired about his health. Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, Union ministers Mahesh Sharma and Jitendra Singh visited him at the hospital besides other leaders and parliamentarians from Ahamed's home state, Kerala
Ahamed, who was also the former Union HRD minister of state, is the national president of the Indian Union Muslim League
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Seventy-nine-year-old Ahamed was rushed out on a stretcher as he fainted when the president was addressing the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament.
Ahamed represents Kerala’s Malappuram in the Lok Sabha.
