Jaffer Sharief
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| C. K. Jaffer Sharief | |
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| C. K. Jaffer Sharief | |
| Constituency | Bangalore North |
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| Born | 3 November 1933 Bengaluru |
| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Residence | Bengaluru |
| Website | http://ckjaffersharief.com/ |
| As of April 6, 2009 Source: [1] |
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C. K. Jaffer Sharief (born 3 November 1933) is a prominent politician from Karnataka state in India and a senior leader of the Indian National Congress party. He was the Railway Minister in the Government of India from 1991-95.
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Jaffer Sharief started his career in the Congress party, Nijalingappa. During the famous split in the Congress, he took the side of Indira Gandhi, a union ministry. As Railway minister, he was instrumental in Unigauge Policy, where all or most of the different gauges of tracks were converted to broad gauges, and thereby saving Railways a lot of money.
He was instrumental in getting the Wheel and Axle Plant in Bangalore
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