Renowned jurist, ex minister Ram Jethmalani dies aged 95
Agencies
NEW DELHI, September 8, 2019: Ram Jethmalani, one of India's best known jurist and a former union minister, passed away at his residence in New Delhi on Sunday morning. He was 95.
Jethmalani was not keeping well for past couple of months, his family said.
He was elected to both houses of parliament on nomination of BJP, RJD and some other parties in his long career as a lawyer-politician.
In 2004 he unsuccessfully contested against former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee from Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency.
Born in Sindh, now in Pakistan, on September 14, 1923, Ram Jethmalani got his law degree when he was just 17 and started practising law in Karachi until his family migrated to India.