Om Prakash Sharma (Delhi politician)

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MLA
Om Prakash Sharma
Sharma being interviewed after he thrashes student
Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly
for Vishwas Nagar
Assumed office
2013
Preceded byNaseeb Singh
Personal details
Born (1953-06-23) 23 June 1953 (age 70)
Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
Political partyBhartiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)Geeta Sharma
ChildrenVikas Sharma, Chetan Sharma
Parent(s)
  • Sh. Shiv Lal Sharma[1] (father)
Residence25 Defence Enclave, Vikas Marg, Delhi-110092
EducationB.A. Delhi Univ.[1]
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionBusiness
Known forMLA from Vishwas Nagar
HobbiesSwimming[1]
First Election Contested2008-Assembly Election[1]
Language KnownHindi, English[1]
Websitehttps://twitter.com/opsharmabjp/

Om Prakash Sharma (born 23 June 1953) is an Indian politician and is an MLA from Vishwas Nagar in Delhi.

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]

Controversies and legal cases[edit]

In the year of 2016, OP Sharma was suspended from 2 sessions due his use of certain downgrade 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]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Om Prakash Sharma". delhiassembly.nic.in. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Who is O P Sharma?". 7 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "BJP MLA's east Delhi house burgled – Times of India".
State Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
? 		Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly
from Vishwas Nagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
2020– 		Incumbent


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