The Congress veteran leader Sukh Ram who was also a Telecom Minister for India at one point in time, passed away today at the age of 94. He was suffering from age related illness. He passed away at Delhi AIIMS.
The six-time legislator and three-time MP was on life-support system after he suffered a massive cardiac arrest two days ago. His grandson Ashray Sharma in a message on his Facebook, wrote: “End of era, my grandfather took his last breath at AIIMS in wee hours today morning.” Sukh Ram will be cremated in Mandi on Thursday.
He was Minister of State for Defence in the Rajiv Gandhi government in 1985. He had to resign as the Communications Minister in the Narasimha Rao government in 1996 in the wake of a financial scandal involving purchase of telecom equipment from a Hyderabad-based private firm.
Sukh Ram was granted interim bail by the apex court in January 2012 after he had surrendered before a trial court to serve his three-year sentence in the telecom scam case. That was the third conviction of Sukh Ram on corruption charges.
