New Delhi

Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Sukh Ram passed away on Wednesday at the age of 95.

He was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after he suffered a brain stroke. "He was admitted to AIIMS and was undergoing treatment for the brain stroke," his son Anil Sharma said.

His grandson Aashray Sharma wrote in a Facebook post, "Goodbye grandfather; Now the phone will not ring." (Roughly translated from a video post along with the caption in Hindi).

Sharma posted several messages over his personal Facebook account mentioning the "end of an era".

Sukh Ram suffered a brain stroke on May 4 in Manali, from where he was later taken to AIIMS, Delhi.

Sukh Ram left the Congress briefly in 2017 before returning to the party in 2019 and described it as 'homecoming'.

He had served in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology from 1993 to 1996. The former Lok Sabha member from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi constituency was a five-time MLA in Himachal Pradesh Assembly and had won the Lok Sabha elections thrice.