Former union minister C K Jaffer Sharief hospitalised

Bangalore: Veteran Congress leader and former Railway Minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief has fallen ill. 85-year-old, Congress leader was shifted to Fortis Hospital on Cunningham Road after he collapsed while getting into the car for Friday namaz. He has been kept in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

According to hospital sources Mr. Sharief is now on a temporary pacemaker and his parameters are stabilising.

As reported by the Hindu, his associate told that Mr. Sharief was too stressed out of late as he was busy preparing for the release of the Urdu translation of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s ‘India Wins Freedom’.

The book release was scheduled to be held at Palace Grounds on November 28. Former President Pranab Mukherjee was invited for the function.