Office: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Term Start: | 23 May 2019 |
Term End: | 4 June 2024 |
Predecessor: | Bishnu Pada Ray |
Successor: | Bishnu Pada Ray |
Constituency: | Andaman & Nicobar Islands |
Office2: | President of the Andaman and Nicobar Territorial Congress Committee |
Term Start2: | 28 June 2020 |
Term End2: | 6 August 2021 |
Successor2: | Rangalal Haldar |
1Blankname2: | National President Indian National Congress |
1Namedata2: | Sonia Gandhi |
Birth Date: | 10 September 1967 |
Birth Place: | Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India |
Party: | Indian National Congress |
Spouse: | Vinita Sharma |
Children: | 2 Daughter (Aastha Sharma and Namya Sharma) |
Kuldeep Rai Sharma (born 10 September 1967) is an Indian politician belonging to INC, who served as a member of Parliament from 2019 to 2024. He also served as President of Andaman and Nicobar Territorial Congress Committee until 2021.[1] [2] Later on, he was promoted by Congress President Sonia Gandhi as All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary incharge for Indian National Congress in Karnataka.[3]
Rai Sharma won the Lok Sabha election 2019 as an Indian National Congress candidate and became Member of Parliament of Andaman & Nicobar Islands constituency, defeating the BJP candidate by a nominal margin of 1,407 votes in his fourth attempt to reach the Parliament.
1998 | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | Andaman and Nicober Islands | Indian Congress (Socialist) | 29,687 | 20.36 | Manoranjan Bhakta | Indian National Congress | 52,365 | 35.91 | |
2009 | Indian National Congress | 72,221 | 42.46 | Bishnu Pada Ray | Bharatiya Janata Party | 75,211 | 44.21 | |||
2014 | 83,157 | 43.69 | Bishnu Pada Ray | 90,969 | 47.80 | |||||
2019 | 95,308 | 45.98 | Vishal Jolly | 93,901 | 45.30 | |||||
2024 | 78,040 | 38.54 | Bishnu Pada Ray | 102,436 | 50.58 |
UNICEF awarded him with PGC Awards 2020 for his work to protect child rights.[4] He initiated 18 debates and 15 questions on matters relating to child labour, malnutrition, mid-day meal schemes, safety of children and child immunisation in the parliament during 2019–20.