Sukh Ram

Sukh Ram

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Sukh Ram Profile

  • Name:
  • Sukh Ram
  • Born:
  • November 19, 1927
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Mandi

Sukh Ram Biography

Sukh Ram is an Indian politician and two-term union minister from Himachal Pradesh, who formerly was associated with Indian National Congress and currently with Bharatiya Janata Party. He served union minister of telecommunications and also production and supplies in two terms. He won the Vidhan Sabha election five times and the Lok sabha election three times. He served as MP from Mandi constituency of Himachal Pradesh, and was a union minister of Indian national congress government. A man of controversies, in 1996, CBI seized from his official residence Rs. 3.6 crores. In 2011 he was convicted and sentenced to three years’ rigorous imprisonment by a Delhi court in 2002.

 

Sukh Ram was born into a middle-class Brahmin family in 1927. He owns rags to riches life history. He completed his LLB studies and practised as a lawyer. However his entry to politics changed the whole equation. Ram represented the Mandi Assembly seat from 1963 to 1984. He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1984 and served as union minister in Rajiv Gandhi’s ministry. He was given the portfolio of defense, production and supplies, planning and food and civil supplies. He also served as Union minister of state (independent charge) of the communications portfolio in Narasimha Rao cabinet, got elected in 1991.

 

Sukh Ram’s political career has been associated with corruption, and his son, Anil Sharma too has followed his footsteps. Anil Sharma won the Mandi Assembly seat in 2007 and 2012, representing Indian National Congress. Anil Sharma’s son, Ayush Sharma is an aspiring actor who is married to Salman Khan’s adopted sister, Arpita Sharma. The family has a significant influence among the Himachal’s Brahmins, and is a very popular political family in the locality.

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Updated: February 25, 2018

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