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Apart from that, Dr. Ahmed has also held the position of a state minister in Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p>President Prathiba Patil appointed Syed Ahmed as the eight governor of Jharkhand in August 2011 and he succeeded M.O.H Farooq, who went on to become the governor of Kerala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Syed Ahmed, the current governor of Jharkhand, represents the Indian National Congress (INC) and [&#8230;]<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/who-is-who\/government-politics\/syed-ahmed.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/who-is-who\/wp-content\/themes\/twocolumn\/images\/readmore-btn.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[62,507,492,471,486,83],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-politics","tag-biography","tag-dr-syed-ahmed","tag-governor","tag-indian-national-congress","tag-jharkhand","tag-politician"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Syed Ahmed, : Biography, Family, Early days in Politics, Criticisms &amp; Awards<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr. Syed Ahmed, the current governor of Jharkhand, represents the Indian National Congress (INC) and was sworn in as the Governor of the state on September 4th 2011. 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