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{{Short description|Indian politician }}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Sunil Kumar Sharma
| image = SunilKumarSharma.png
| alt = [Sunil Kumar Sharma ]
| caption =
| office = Minister of Electronics & Information Technology<br/>[[Government of Uttar Pradesh]]
| term_start = 5 March 2024
| 1blankname = [[Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata = [[Yogi Adityanath]]
| predecessor = [[Yogendra Upadhyaya]]
| office1 = Member of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start1 = 11 March 2017
| term_end1 =
| constituency1 = [[Sahibabad (Assembly constituency)|Sahibabad]]
| predecessor1 = [[Amarpal Sharma]]
| successor1 =
| office2 =
| term_start2 = 2007
| term_end2 = 2012
| constituency2 = [[Ghaziabad (Assembly constituency)|Ghaziabad]]
| predecessor2 = Surendra Kumar
| successor2 = [[Suresh Bansal]]
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Patla, [[Ghaziabad]], Uttar Pradesh
| resting_place =
| resting_place_coordinates =
| birth_name =
| parents = Shri Jaibhagwan Sharma<ref name="Candidate affidavit">{{cite news|title=Candidate affidavit|publisher= my neta.info|url=http://myneta.info/up2012/candidate.php?candidate_id=1769}}</ref>
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party BJP]]
| alma_mater =
| occupation = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]
| profession = Farmer, advocate, politician<ref name="Candidate affidavit"/>
}}

'''Sunil Kumar Sharma''' is an [[Indian politician]] from [[Uttar Pradesh]] belonging to the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]. He is a member of the [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] representing [[Sahibabad Assembly constituency|Sahibabad]] and Minister in [[Government of Uttar Pradesh]].

Sharma is considered a close aide of RRS top leadership and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Defence Minister of India [[Rajnath Singh]], [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]]'S National President [[J. P. Nadda|J.P. Nadda]] with whom he had worked for years. He has earlier been part of the [[Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|17th]] [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]], representing the [[Sahibabad (Assembly constituency)|Sahibabad constituency]] and was elected by the largest victory margin in the 2017 and the 2022 assembly elections. In [[2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election]] he created a record by winning by the highest margin ever for a candidate in a legislative assembly election in India since independence.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sahibabad Election Result 2022 LIVE: Sahibabad MLA Election Result & Vote Share - Oneindia |url=https://www.oneindia.com/sahibabad-assembly-elections-up-55/ |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=www.oneindia.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Political career==
From 2007 to 2012, Sharma served as a member of the [[Fifteenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|15th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]] representing the [[Ghaziabad (Assembly constituency)|Ghaziabad]] constituency.

Following the 2017 assembly elections, on 11 March 2017, he was appointed a member of the Legislative Assembly ([[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]]) for the [[Sahibabad]] constituency and joined the 17th Legislative Assembly. Sharma secured the largest victory margin of 150,643 votes in the election.
In 2017 Sunil Sharma was appointed president of the Panchayati Raj Samiti legislative Assembly [[Uttar Pradesh]] (Ranked State Minister of Uttar Pradesh).

He received {{formatnum:262317}} votes in total, accounting for 62% of all votes polled. In the 2022 election, he won by 2,14,835 votes securing over 67% of all votes polled.

Sharma is also a member of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]].<ref name="Candidate affidavit" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sahibabad Election and Results 2018, Candidate list, Winner, Runner-up, Current MLA and Previous MLAs |url=https://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/sahibabad.html |access-date=2024-08-24 |website=Elections in India}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/noida/sahibabad-new-bjp-mla-set-sights-on-development-in-indirapuram/story-P7CmgGxI1A5ZGA8qvmwguK.html|title= sahibabad new BJP MLA set sights on development in Indirapuram|publisher=www.hindustantimes.com|accessdate=11 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/elections/bjp-ghaziabad-bsp-congress/|title=BJP pockets all five Assembly seats in Ghaziabad district|publisher=The Indian Express|accessdate=12 March 2017}}</ref>

==Record==
Sharma is listed in India's Book of Records as he won the election of the 2022 Legislative Assembly Uttar Pradesh. He won by the highest margin ever for a candidate in a legislative assembly election in India since independence.

==Posts held==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! # !! From !! To !! Position !! Constituency
|-
| 01 || 2007 || 2012 || Member, [[15th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|15th Legislative Assembly]] || Ghaziabad
|-
| 02 || 2017<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Sahibabad Assembly Election 2017 Candidate List & Winner|url=https://www.india.com/assembly-election-2017/uttar-pradesh/sahibabad/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=India.com}}</ref> || 2022 || Member, [[17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh|17th Legislative Assembly]] || Sahibabad
|-
| 03 || 2022|| 2027 || Member, [[18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly]] || Sahibabad
|-
| 04 || 2017||2022|| State Minister, [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|President, Panchayati Raj Committee, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]|| Uttar Pradesh
|-
| 05 || 2022||2024|| State Minister, [[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly|President, Committee of Examination of Audit Reports of the Local Bodies]]|| Uttar Pradesh
|-
| 06 || 2024||2027|| Cabinet Minister, [[Government of Uttar Pradesh|Electronics & Information, Uttar Pradesh]]|| Uttar Pradesh
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly]]
*[[Seventeenth Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh]]
*[[18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly]]
*[[Bharatiya Janata Party]]

==References==
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[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2017–2022]]
[[Category:Uttar Pradesh MLAs 2022–2027]]
[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Living people]]
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