Brij Kishore Sharma

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Brij Kishore Sharma
Member of Rajasthan Legislative Assembly
In office
2008–2013
OccupationBusiness
ProfessionEngineer, Politician

Brij Kishore Sharma (born c.1946) is an Indian former politician. [1] [2]

He was born in 1946, the eldest son of Nawal Kishore Sharma, the Governor of Gujarat State (2004-2009), and Munni Devi. [3] [4]

In 1968 he obtained a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Rajasthan Board of Technical Education. [5]

In 2008, Sharma contested the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elections, as the Indian National Congress candidate, for the Hawa Mahal constituency. He polled 44,926 votes (41% of the total vote) winning the seat by a margin of 580 votes, defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, Manju Sharma, the daughter of Bhanwar Lal Sharma. [4] [6] [7]

Sharma was subsequently appointed as Education Minister in Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's Cabinet. [4]

At the 2013 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elections he lost the seat to Surendra Pareek, the former member for Hawa Mahal, by 12,715 votes. [7]

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