Ck jaffer sharief biography
Challakere Kareem Jaffer Sharief (3 November – 25 November ) was an Indian politician.
Challakere Kareem Jaffer Sharief was an Indian politician.!
C K Jaffer Sharief: The man who tipped off Indira on Cong split
A well-known anecdote from the life of veteran Karnataka Congress leader C K Jaffer Sharief, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 85, is that he carried information regarding the impending split in the Congress in 1969 to then prime minister Indira Gandhi.
As a young worker and driver at the Congress office in Karnataka, Sharief had overheard a conversation involving then Congress president S Nijalingappa’s plans to split the party.
The diehard Gandhi family loyalist would later become an MP eight times and rise to become the railway minister in the 1980s.
After winning his first election in 1971, he would remain undefeated until 2004 — mostly from the Bangalore North constituency. He did not contest the 1996 Lok Sabha polls.
In the last decade of his life though, Sharief’s loyalty to the Congress showed signs of fraying,
