Ashwani Kumar Sharma

Ashwani Sharma (born 23 January 1964) is an Indian politician and the former Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) Punjab president. He is a member of Punjab Legislative Assembly and currently representing Pathankot Assembly constituency.

This article is about the Punjab politician. For the Jammu and Kashmir politician, see Ashwani Kumar Sharma (J&K politician).

Ashwani Sharma
Member of Legislative Assembly, Punjab (India)
Assumed office
10 March 2022
Preceded byAmit Vij
ConstituencyPathankot
In office
2012–2017
Preceded byMaster Mohan Lal
Succeeded byAmit Vij
ConstituencyPathankot
President of Bhartiya Janta Party, Punjab
In office
17 January 2020 - 4 July 2023
Preceded byShwait Malik
Succeeded bySunil Jakhar
In office
4 February 2010 – 16 January 2013
Preceded byRajinder Bhandari
Succeeded byKamal Sharma
Personal details
Born (1964-01-23) 23 January 1964
Pathankot, Punjab, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Children1 Son

Early life

Sharma was born in a lower-middle-class Punjabi Hindu family on 23 January 1964. His family had migrated to Gurdaspur from Sialkot after partition.[1]

Ashwani Kumar Sharma did his early schooling from Vivekananda Model High School, Pathankot and went to do his graduation from Guru Nanak Dev University in Bachelor of Arts.

Politics

Sharma was involved with RSS. During his college days in Pathankot, he was a member of ABVP.[2] After a successful term he was appointed General Secretary BJP Punjab from 2007 to 2010. Meanwhile, he became Chairman of District Planning Board Gurdaspur. He was made State President in 2010.[3][4]

He was made the President B.J.Y.M. (Pb) in 2004. After a successful term he was appointed General Secretary BJP Punjab from 2007 to 2010.

MLA

He became Chairman of District Planning Board Gurdaspur. He was elected as BJP Punjab State President in 2010. Under his leadership party performed exceptionally well in 2012 legislative elections by winning all the Vidhan Sabha seats for BJP in Dist. Pathankot and contributed in building SAD-BJP alliance and was able to repeat the coalition government in Punjab after 43 years and also became member of legislative assembly in 2012.

He was elected as MLA in 2022. The Aam Aadmi Party gained a strong 79% majority in the sixteenth Punjab Legislative Assembly by winning 92 out of 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election. MP Bhagwant Mann was sworn in as Chief Minister on 16 March 2022.[5]

Electoral performance
Punjab Assembly election, 2012: Pathankot[6][7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ashwani Kumar Sharma 42,218 44.56 Increase2.26
INC Raman Bhalla 24,362 25.71 Decrease8.33
Independent Ashok Sharma 23,713 25.03
Majority 17,856 18.85 Increase10.59
Turnout 94,742 72.66 Decrease0.87
BJP hold
Punjab Assembly election, 2017: Pathankot[8][9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
INC Amit Vij 56,383 50.86 Increase25.15
BJP Ashwani Kumar Sharma 45,213 40.79 Decrease3.77
AAP Raj Kumar 6,036 5.45 New
NOTA None of the above 907 0.82
Majority 11,170 10.08 Decrease8.77
Turnout 110,853 76.13 Increase3.47
Registered electors 145,604 [10]
INC gain from BJP
Punjab Assembly election, 2022: Pathankot
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ashwani Kumar Sharma 43,132 38.01 Decrease2.78
INC Amit Vij 35,373 31.17 Decrease19.69
AAP Vibhuti Sharma 31,451 27.72 Increase22.27
NOTA None of the above 666 0.59 Decrease0.23
Majority 7,759 6.84 Decrease3.24
Turnout 113,480 74.40 Decrease1.73
Registered electors 152,519 [11] Increase4.53
BJP gain from INC

References
  1. "Punjab 2012". The Association for Democratic Reforms. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
  2. "Candidate affidavit". MyNeta. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
  3. . Results Punjab State Assembly Elections 2012 Archived 6 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Bharatiya Janta Party Punjab". Retrieved 4 May 2013.
  5. "AAP's Bhagwant Mann sworn in as Punjab Chief Minister". The Hindu. 16 March 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
  6. "Pathankot Assembly election result, 2012". Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  7. Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2012". Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  8. "Pathankot Assembly election result, 2017". Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  9. Election Commission of India. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2017". Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  10. Chief Electoral Officer - Punjab. "Electors and Polling Stations - VS 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  11. "Punjab General Legislative Election 2022". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
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