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'''Balkrishna Sharma''' was an | '''Balkrishna Sharma''' was an Indian politician. He was a leader of the [[Communist Party of India]] and the [[All India Kisan Sabha (Ajoy Bhavan)|Kisan Sabha]]. Sharma was active in organising peasants movement in northern Madhya Pradesh for various decades.<ref name="Jaffrelot1999">{{cite book|author=Christophe Jaffrelot|title=The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics: 1925 to the 1990s : Strategies of Identity-building, Implantation and Mobilisation (with Special Reference to Central India)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iVsfVOTUnYEC&pg=PA251|year=1999|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-024602-5|page=251}}</ref><ref name="e"/><ref name="link"/> Together with other CPI leaders such as [[Khan Shakir Ali Khan]] he organised occupations of estates of ex-princes and other large landowners.<ref name="Council1970">{{cite book|author=Communist Party of India. National Council|title=Resolutions of the National Council of the Communist Party of India, New Delhi, 1 to 5 October 1970|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWkFAAAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=The Party|page=78}}</ref> As of 1973 he was a member of the Central Kisan Committee, the national leadership of the All India Kisan Sabha.<ref name="Sabha1974">{{cite book|author=All India Kisan Sabha|title=Twentyfirst National Conference of the All-India Kisan Sabha, Bhatinda (Punjab) 19th to 23rd September 1973|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4NVHAAAAYAAJ|year=1974|publisher=B. Jha for the All-India Kisan Sabha|page=107}}</ref> | ||
Sharma contested the Gird seat in the 1962 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. He finished in third place, with 5,305 votes (18.22%).<ref name="mp1962">Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_MP_1962.pdfSTATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA PRADESH]''</ref> | Sharma contested the Gird seat in the 1962 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. He finished in third place, with 5,305 votes (18.22%).<ref name="mp1962">Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_MP_1962.pdfSTATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA PRADESH]''</ref> |