| Brij Kishore Sharma | |
| Birth Date: | 1947 6, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Dausa, Rajasthan, India |
| Office: | Minister of Primary & Secondary Education, Government of Rajasthan |
| Term Start: | 17 November 2011 |
| Termend: | 9 December 2013 |
| Successor: | Kiran Maheshwari |
| 1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
| 1Namedata: | Ashok Gehlot |
| Office1: | Member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly |
| Termstart1: | 2008 |
| Termend1: | 2013 |
| Constituency1: | Hawa Mahal |
| Preceded1: | Surendra Pareek |
| Succeeded1: | Surendra Pareek |
| Father: | Nawal Kishore Sharma |
| Party: | Indian National Congress |
| Profession: | Engineer, Politician |
| Nationality: | Indian |
| Occupation: | Business |
| Footnotes: | Source https://assembly.rajasthan.gov.in/HamareVidhayak/RptMemberSearch.aspx |
Brij Kishore Sharma (born c.1947) is an Indian former politician.[1] [2]
He was born in 1947, the eldest son of Nawal Kishore Sharma, the Governor of Gujarat State (2004-2009), and Munni Devi.[3] [4]
In 1968 he obtained a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Rajasthan Board of Technical Education.[5]
In 2008, Sharma contested the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elections, as the Indian National Congress candidate, for the Hawa Mahal constituency. He polled 44,926 votes (41% of the total vote) winning the seat by a margin of 580 votes, defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, Manju Sharma, the daughter of Bhanwar Lal Sharma.[4] [6] [7]
Sharma was subsequently appointed as Education Minister in Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's Cabinet.[4]
At the 2013 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elections he lost the seat to Surendra Pareek, the former member for Hawa Mahal, by 12,715 votes.[7]