GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 11th May. Veteran Congress leader and former Union Minister Pandit Sukh Ram passed away on Wednesday. He was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences after he suffered a brain stroke.
“He was admitted to AIIMS and was undergoing treatment for the brain stroke,” his son Anil Sharma said.
His grandson Aashray Sharma wrote in a Facebook post, “Goodbye grandfather; Now the phone will not ring.”
His grandson posted some more messages over his personal Facebook account mentioning the “end of an era”.
According to a press letter shared by the former leader Pt Sukh Ram’s grandson, he suffered a brain stroke on May 4 in Manali, from where he was later taken to AIIMS, Delhi.
Leaving the Congress in 2017, the 95-year old leader had rejoined the party in 2019, calling it his ‘homecoming’.
Pt Sukh Ram had served in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology from 1993 to 1996.
The former Lok Sabha member from Mandi constituency of Himachal Pradesh was a five-time MLA in Himachal Pradesh Assembly and had won the Lok Sabha polls thrice.
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