Bengaluru, Nov 25 2018: Veteran Congress leader and former union railway minister, Challakere Kareem Jaffer Sherief (85) passed away on Monday in a private hospital in Bengaluru.
Born on 3 November 1933 in Chitradurga of the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom, Sharief represented Bangalore North constituency from 1977 to 1996. He joined the P V Narasimha Rao ministry in 1991 as the Minister for Railways.
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Courtesy:deccanherald.com