Sayeed Ahmed contested in Karnataka Legislative Assembly election as the candidate from the Congress Party in 1999 from Binnypet (Vidhana Sabha Constituency) and in 2008 from Chamrajpet (Vidhana Sabha constituency) .[12] He was also declared as the official Congress Lok Sabha candidate from Bangalore North Parliamentary Constituency in place of late veteran Congress Leader C.K. Jaffer Sharief in 1996. On 2 July 2015, Y Sayeed Ahmed was appointed as the chairman of the Minority Department of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC).[2]