Om Prakash Sharma (Delhi politician)

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Om Prakash Sharma
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Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly
for Vishwas Nagar
Assumed office
2013
Education Delhi University (BA) [1]

Om Prakash Sharma (born 20 March 1953) is an Indian politician and is an MLA from Vishwas Nagar in Delhi.

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Sharma generally known by the name OP Sharma is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly. He is one of three MLAs from the BJP in the Delhi Legislative Assembly Election 2015. He was the only BJP MLA who was able to retain his seat from 2013 Election from Vishwasnagar constituency beating his nearest candidate, Atul Gupta(AAP), by a margin of 15,000 votes. [2]

He was born in the staff quarters of corporation employees at Kashmere Gate. Sharma's father was working in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. The eldest of three sons, Sharma graduated from Satyawati College where he was college president. He also contested the Delhi University students’ union election and was an executive member of the team which Mr. Arun Jaitley headed as president. He started his political career from Delhi University. Then he worked as an employee of the municipal corporation. After his father died, he became an inspector in the house tax department. He quit the job within a year and started taking care of sweets shops his family owns. Now he is well known Politician in Bharatiya Janata Party, Delhi. [2]

In the year of 2016, OP Sharma was suspended from 2 sessions due to his use of certain derogatory remarks against AAP's Chandni Chowk MLA Alka Lamba. He was also arrested following an attack on a CPI leader and journalists outside Patiala House Courts where Kanhaiya Kumar the former JNUSU president was being produced. [2]

On 9 January 2017, Sharma's office in Karkarduma in east Delhi was burgled, days after Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's office located around the same area was broken into. A computer, LCD TV, DVRs from CCTV cameras, and files were stolen from Sharma's office, the same items that were stolen in the Sisodia burglary. [3]

Electoral performance

Delhi Assembly elections, 2020: Vishwas Nagar [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
BJP Om Prakash Sharma 65,830 52.57 +7.42
AAP Deepak Singla49,37339.42+2.16
INC Gurcharan Singh Raju7,8816.29-9.74
NOTA None of the above8540.68+0.29
BSP Dileep Gautam7390.59-0.07
Majority16,45713.15+5.26
Turnout 1,25,33562.65-6.31
BJP hold Swing +7.42

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References

  1. 1 2 "Om Prakash Sharma". delhiassembly.nic.in. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Who is O P Sharma?". 7 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "BJP MLA's east Delhi house burgled – Times of India". The Times of India. 9 January 2017.
  4. ↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2020 to the Legislative Assembly of NCT of Delhi". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India . Retrieved 28 October 2021.
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