Veteran Congress chief and former Union minister Pandit Sukh Ram has handed away, his grandson stated. He was 94.
Sukh Ram was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi on May 7.
A Himachal Pradesh Congress chief, Sukh Ram’s grandson Aashray Sharma in a Facebook publish on late Wednesday evening wrote, “Adieu Grandfather, Now phone will not ring (Alvida Dadajee, Abhi Nahi Bajegee Phone Ki Ghanti).” However, the publish didn’t point out when he breathed his final.
Sharma additionally posted his childhood picture with Sukh Ram on Facebook.
Sukh Ram suffered a mind stroke in Manali on May 4, following which he was admitted on the regional hospital in Mandi. From there he was airlifted to Delhi on Saturday for higher remedy at AIIMS.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on May 7 supplied a state helicopter for airlifting the veteran political chief to Delhi.
Sukh Ram was the Union Minister of State, Communications (Independent Charge) from 1993 to 1996. He was a member of Lok Sabha from the Mandi constituency of Himachal Pradesh.
He gained the Vidhan Sabha elections 5 instances and the Lok Sabha elections thrice.
In 2011, he was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment for corruption when he was Communications Minister in 1996.
Sukh Ram’s son Anil Sharma is a BJP MLA from Mandi.
Sukh Ram represented the Mandi Assembly seat from 1963 to 1984. During his tenure as Animal Husbandry minister in Himachal Pradesh, he introduced cows from Germany which led to the rise in earnings of the state farmers.
He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1984 and served as a junior minister within the Rajiv Gandhi authorities.
Sukh Ram served as minister of state for protection manufacturing and provides, planning and meals and civil provides. Sukh Ram was the Union minister of state (unbiased cost) holding the communications portfolio from 1993 to 1996.
While Sukh Ram represented the Mandi Lok Sabha constituency, his son Anil Sharma contested and gained the Assembly seat in 1993.
Sukh Ram gained the Mandi Lok Sabha seat in 1996, however he and his son have been rip-off from the Congress after the telecom. Subsequently, they floated the Himachal Vikas Congress social gathering, which entered right into a post-poll alliance with the BJP and joined the federal government.
In 1998, Sukh Ram contested the Assembly Elections from Mandi Sadar and gained by an enormous margin. His son Anil Sharma was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1998.
In the 2003 Assembly ballot, he retained the Mandi Assembly seat however rejoined Congress within the run-up to the 2004 Lok Sabha polls. His son Anil Sharma gained the Mandi Assembly seat in 2007 and 2012 as a Congress candidate.
Prior to the 2017 Assembly elections, Sukh Ram joined BJP alongside together with his son Anil Sharma and grandson Aashray Sharma.
However, Sukh Ram alongside together with his grandson Aashray Sharma rejoined Congress proper earlier than the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to get Congress ticket for Aashray however he couldn’t win.
Sukh Ram was born on July 27, 1927. His different grandson Aayush Sharma is an actor and married to Bollywood celebrity Salman Khan’s sister.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
