sentences:  The retired managing director of a clothing manufacturing company, he was Director of the East Lancashire Training Enterprise Council, and Enterprise plc.He also served as President of Lancashire Council of Mosques, Vice-President of the Blackburn Community Relations Council, counsellor to the Muslim Council of Britain and 
  chairman of the British Hajj Commission.On 14 February 2000, he was created a Life Peer as Baron Patel of Blackburn, of Langho in the County of Lancashire.