Sunil Kumar Sharma
Minister of Electronics & Information Technology Government of Uttar Pradesh
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 March 2024
Chief Minister	Yogi Adityanath
Preceded by	Yogendra Upadhyaya
Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 March 2017
Preceded by	Amarpal Sharma
Constituency	Sahibabad
In office 2007–2012
Preceded by	Surendra Kumar
Succeeded by	Suresh Bansal
Constituency	Ghaziabad
Personal details
Born	Patla, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Parent	Shri Jaibhagwan Sharma[1]
Residence(s)	2/71, Near Karan Gate Police Chowki, Sector-2, Rajendra Nagar, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad
Occupation	MLA
Profession	Farmer, Advocate, Politician[1]

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 and Minister in Government of Uttar Pradesh.

Sharma is considered a close aide of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Defence Minister of India Rajnath Singh, BJP'S National President J.P. Nadda with whom he had worked for years. He has earlier been part of the 17th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, representing the 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.^[2]

Political career

From 2007 to 2012, Sharma served as a member of the 15th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing the Ghaziabad constituency.

Pandit Sunil Sharma is counted as the top Brahmin leader in Uttar Pradesh.

Following the 2017 assembly elections, on 11 March 2017, he was appointed Member of the Legislative Assembly (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 262,317 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.^[1][3][4][5]

Record

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

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