Aslam Sher Khan

Aslam Sher Khan, a former Indian hockey player, was a member of the Indian team. In the 1975 World Cup held at Kuala Lumpur, Aslam Sher Khan helped Indian Hockey Team to win the gold medal. He as a member of Indian team also participated in Munich Olympics held in the 1972. Aslam Sher Khan has also been a Congress Member of Parliament and a Union Minister as well. In December 1997, Aslam Sher Khan joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has also authored an autobiography, `To Hell with Hockey`.

Aslam Sher Khan was born on 15th July 1953 to father Late Shri Ahmed Sher Khan and mother Ahmedi in Bhopal. His father Ahmed Sher Khan has represented India in 1936 at the Berlin Olympics. As he said in his autobiography about his grandfather's saying, "Your father had a streak of madness in him, Like you, he had a great obsession for hockey. He made your mother promise that if they had a son, she would bring him up to be a hockey player." Ahmed Sher Khan was the Hockey coach of Aslam's school but never selected Aslam to play for the school team. When he asked his father about this thing he replied back with the words "you still have a lot to learn." Aslam has done his B.Sc. from Saifia College, Bhopal. On 25th October 1981, Aslam married to Smt. Rehana Sher Khan, with whom he has two sons.

Aslam Sher Khan In the year 1966, was called up for the All India schools hockey camp at Bhopal. But his father fell ill at that time. He did not want to join the camp but his father moralized him by saying "The more you play, and the better you play, the more I`ll know you love me." That reverberated like an order to him and he went to join the camp. He was selected in the All-India schools hockey team as a forward under the famous hockey player Roop Singh, who played with his father in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Hearing this selection news, his father went on crying. At the age of 13, Ahmed Sher died. Aslam Sher Khan's ambition was to represent his own country in hockey in the Olympics like his father. Aslam Sher Khan played hockey as a full back. He later joined politics and was elected to Lok Sabha.

After the Indian Hockey Federation was suspended in April, 2008, Khan was selected to head a new committee created by the Indian Olympic Association to organize hockey in India. This panel will work in conjunction with the International Field Hockey Federation. [http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gDzU3VRFYZc_-9Kyof9Mt6XFD2oA] The panel also includes Ashok Kumar, Ajit Pal Singh, Zafar Iqbal, and Dhanraj Pillay. [http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Well-make-a-iChak-De-i-type-team/303138/] , [http://sports.in.msn.com/stories/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1363565]

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* " [http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Well-make-a-iChak-De-i-type-team/303138/ We’ll make a Chak De type team: Aslam] " - "Express India"