Former Union minister Baleshwar Ram passes away

Veteran Congress leader and Former Union minister Baleshwar Ram passed away on 3 May 2014 due to kidney-related ailments in Patna, Bihar. He was 87.
Since 1952 he had served as MLA for five-term from various assembly constituencies in Bihar.
Mr Ram also had served in different ministerial capacity in various Congress governments in Bihar between 1960s and 1970s.
In 1980, he was elected to Lok Sabha from Rosera constituency and had served as the Union minister in the Indira Gandhi government.

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2015