Mr. Pandit Sukh Ram

( Jul 27 1927 - May 11 2022 )

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Sukhram Sharma was born on 27 July 1927 in a poor family of 10 children in Kotli, Himachal Pradesh. He attended the Delhi Law School and practised as a lawyer at the Mandi District law courts in 1953. In 1962, he became a Member of the Territorial Council in Himachal Pradesh. He was an Indian politician who served as the Minister of Communications and Information Technology from 1993 to 1996. He was a member of Lok Sabha from the Mandi constituency of Himachal Pradesh. He won the Vidhan Sabha elections five times and the Lok Sabha elections three times. He is the father of politician Anil Sharma and grandfather of actor Aayush Sharma. In 2011 he was sentenced to 5 years in jail for corruption when he was Communications Minister in 1996.

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Politician

Address

Kotli, Himachal Pradesh, India