Senior Congress leader and former union minister Pandit Sukh Ram, 95,  passed away in New Delhi where he was undergoing treatment at AIIMS on Wednesday.

• Sukh Ram suffered a brain stroke in Manali on May 4 and admitted to regional hospital in Mandi from where he was airlifted to Delhi on Saturday for better treatment at AIIMS.

• Sukh Ram was the Union Minister of State, Communications (Independent Charge) 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.