Former Union minister Sukh Ram, convicted in a 1993 telecom scam and ordered to surrender, is not in a state of coma, doctors attending on him said, contradicting his counsel's submission in a court in New Delhi that he cannot move from hospital as he is in a coma.
Veteran Marxist leader Harkrishan Singh Surjeet was discharged from a hospital in Noida on Tuesday, nearly a month after being admitted there following a cardio-respiratory attack. Surjeet is currently bed-ridden and has to be on liquid diet.
'There were any number of Congress leaders who disliked Sonia Gandhi, but they were very close to Ahmed Bhai and he would listen, and give a shoulder to cry upon.'