Pandit Sukh Ram (born Sukhram Sharma; 27 July 1927 – 11 May 2022)[1] was an Indian politician who served as the Minister of Communications and Information Technology from 1993 to 1996.
[3] Sukhram Sharma was born on 27 July 1927[4] in a poor family of 10 children in Kotli, Himachal Pradesh.
[6] While Ram represented the Mandi Lok Sabha constituency, his son contested and won the Assembly seat in 1993.
Ram won the Mandi Lok Sabha seat in 1996, but the two were expelled from the Congress party after the telecom scam.
Ram contested the Assembly Elections in 1998 from Mandi Sadar and won by a huge margin of 22000+ votes; that was highest in the State.