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Umesh Sharma is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Sharma is a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Raipur constituency in Dehradun district.[1][2][3]

In the 2012 Uttarakhand Assembly elections, Umesh Sharma Kau, then with the Indian National Congress, defeated Trivendra Singh Rawat by a narrow margin of 0.62% votes.[4][5]

In 2016, Umesh Sharma Kau along with other Congress MLAs rebelled and switched over to BJP.[6][7]

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  1. ↑ I WAS BEING PRESSURISED TO SHIFT MY CONSTITUENCY: UMESH SHARMA
  2. ↑ My Neta
  3. ↑ I can't shift to Dehradun Cantt seat: Raipur MLA
  4. ↑ "The Margin of Victory Series: Uttarakhand". meradesh.org. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  5. ↑ "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2012 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF UTTARAKHAND". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 December 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ↑ "Uttarakhand BJP MLA denies plan to join Congress, insiders point at plum post". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  7. ↑ Oct 7, TNN /; 2019; Ist, 11:45. "Dehradun: BJP slaps Umesh Sharma Kau with show-cause notice | Dehradun News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 22 December 2021. {{cite web}}: |last2= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)