Balkrishna Sharma (CPI politician)

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Balkrishna Sharma was an Indian politician. He was a leader of the Communist Party of India and the Kisan Sabha. Sharma was active in organising peasants movement in northern Madhya Pradesh for various decades. [1] [2] [3] Together with other CPI leaders such as Khan Shakir Ali Khan he organised occupations of estates of ex-princes and other large landowners. [4] As of 1973 he was a member of the Central Kisan Committee, the national leadership of the All India Kisan Sabha. [5]

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Sharma contested the Gird seat in the 1962 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. He finished in third place, with 5,305 votes (18.22%). [6]

Ten years later, Sharma won the Gird seat in a June 1972 by-election. The Indian National Congress had declared its support for Sharma's candidature, but local Congress leaders in Gwalior offered little support for him. [3] [7] He got 12,704 votes compared to 11,915 votes for the Bharatiya Jana Sangh candidate Maheshdutta Mishra. [2] [3]

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Sharma lost the Gird seat in the 1977 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. He finished in fourth place with 2,348 votes (6.04% of the votes in the constituency). [8]

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  2. 1 2 Election Commission of India. Bye-election results 1952-95
  3. ↑ Communist Party of India. National Council (1970). Resolutions of the National Council of the Communist Party of India, New Delhi, 1 to 5 October 1970. The Party. p. 78.
  4. ↑ All India Kisan Sabha (1974). Twentyfirst National Conference of the All-India Kisan Sabha, Bhatinda (Punjab) 19th to 23rd September 1973. B. Jha for the All-India Kisan Sabha. p. 107.
  5. ↑ Election Commission of India. REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA PRADESH
  6. ↑ Asian Recorder, Vol. 18. 1972. p. viii.
  7. ↑ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1977 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA PRADESH
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