Om Prakash Sharma (Delhi politician)

Om Prakash Sharma
Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly
for Vishwas Nagar
Incumbent
Assumed office
2013
Preceded byNaseeb Singh
Personal details
Born (1953-03-20) 20 March 1953 (age 71)
Delhi, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
SpouseGeeta Sharma
Parent
  • Sh. Shiv Lal Sharma[1] (father)
EducationDelhi University (BA)[1]

Om Prakash Sharma (born 20 March 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]

  1. ^ a b "Om Prakash Sharma". delhiassembly.nic.in. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Who is O P Sharma?". 7 August 2018.