Jaffer Sharief dead: Ex-Union Minister and veteran Congress leader passed away at 85

 Jaffer Sharief dead: Former Union Minister and veteran Congress leader from Karnataka Jaffer Sharief died at a private hospital on Sunday following a heart attack, a party official said. He was 85. "Sharief passed away around 12.30 p.m. at Fortis Hospital in the city centre. "He was admitted on Friday after he collapsed at home. He was ailing for sometime with age-related problems," party's state unit spokesman Ravi Gowda told IANS.

Senior Congress leader CK Jaffer Sharief passes away in a hospital in Bengaluru. He was 85 years old. pic.twitter.com/n6NsWkk44J

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A veteran parliamentarian from Bengaluru North and Bengaluru Rural Lok Sabha constituencies, Sharief was Union Railway Minister from 1991-1995 under the P.V. Narasimha Rao government at the Centre.