Veteran Congress leader Aryadan Muhammed died on September 25, 2022 in Kozhikode, India. The cause of death was not revealed to the public. He was 87.
Aryadan Muhammed was an Indian National Congress party leader who served as Minister for Electricity and Transport in the Oommen Chandy Ministry.
He represented the Nilambur constituency in Kerala until 2016, being elected for the eighth time in the 2011 State Election. He had served as a minister for four terms.
Muhammed joined Congress in 1952 and became a member of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee in 1958. Later, he served as the president of the Malappuram district congress committee and had been a state leader of the INTUC, the trade union wing of Congress.
He again became a minister in the Congress cabinet in 1995 when Antony became the chief minister in the wake of K Karunakaran’s resignation.
In 2004, when Oommen Chandy became the chief minister, Muhammed was inducted as power minister.
Muhammed had been an alleged accused in the sensational murder of Communist leader and former legislator K Kunhali in 1969. But, a court acquitted him.