Ex-Union Minister Jaffer Sharief dies

Former

Union Minister and veteran Congress leader from Karnataka Jaffer Sharief died at a private hospital here yesterday following a heart attack, a party official said. He was 85.

“Sharief passed away around 12.30pm at Fortis Hospital,” a party spokesman told IANS. A veteran parliamentarian from Bengaluru North and Bengaluru Rural Lok Sabha constituencies, Sharief was Union Railway Minister from 19911995 under the Narasimha Rao government at the centre. (IANS)