Madan Lal Sharma

Madan Lal Sharma, two-time Congress MP from Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, died on December 23. The 68-year-old Congress leader had represented the Indian National Congress from the Poonch constituency in the 14th and 15th Lok Sabha. However, during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Sharma was defeated by BJP's Jugal Kishore Sharma. Expressing his grief, J&K BJP President Ravinder Raina tweeted, "He was a hardworking leader."