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AIADMK MP Mohammedjan, Who Supported CAA Bill In Rajya Sabha, Passes Away Due To Heart Attack

AIADMK Rajya Sabha MP and former Minister A Mohammedjan, who created controversy by supporting the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in the Rajya Sabha died of a heart attack at his residence in Ranipet on Tuesday, after hectic campaigning for the April 6 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections. He was 72.

The late MP’s relative told PTI, “He had just returned home (Ranipet) after campaigning for the Assembly polls. He then said he was experiencing chest pain. We rushed him to the hospital and on the way, he became unconscious. Doctors, after examination him, said he died of a heart attack.”

The Minister for Minorities and Backward Classes Welfare in 2011-16, he was nominated to the upper house of Parliament in June 2019 along with PMK leader and former Union minister Anbumani Ramadoss.

He was also the chairman of the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board and joint secretary of AIADMK’s Minorities Welfare Wing.

In 2019, Mohammedjan was removed from his position in Al Jamaat Federation for supporting the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in the Rajya Sabha. The Federation said that the MP committed had betrayed the trust of the community by voting in favour of the Bill, which is now the Citizens (Amendment) Act (CAA).

He is survived by his wife, three sons and a daughter.

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