He was a state health minister and he was also the United National Progressive Alliance candidate for the vice-president in the 10 August 2007 election and placed third with 75 votes.
He was elected to the 6th Lok Sabha for the first time on a Janata Party ticket in the post-emergency polls in 1977.
From April to November 1990, he was Minister of Health and Family Welfare (Independent Charge) in the V P Singh government.
[4] On 19 September 2013, a Special CBI court held Rasheed Masood guilty in a case of corruption and other offences.
He was held guilty of fraudulently nominating undeserving candidates to MBBS seats allotted to Tripura in medical colleges across the country from the central pool.