Ram Bilas Sharma is a former India

India

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n state education minister and prominent politician who has represented the Mahendragarh

Mahendragarh

Mahendragarh is a town and a municipal committee in Mahendragarh district in the north Indian state of Haryana.-Geography:Mahendragarh is located at...

 constituency in the northern state of Haryana

Haryana

Haryana is a state in India. Historically, it has been a part of the Kuru region in North India. The name Haryana is found mentioned in the 12th century AD by the apabhramsha writer Vibudh Shridhar . It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, and by Rajasthan to the west and south...

 four times.

Biography

Sharma was born in Rathiwas village, P.O. Kuruhwata, Mahendragarh, Haryana in 1949. He initially worked as a professor, but at the time of the Indian Emergency (25 June 1975 – 21 March 1977), he became active in politics and opposed the emergency rule

Rule by decree

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 of Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi

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, joining the Bharatiya Janata Party

Bharatiya Janata Party

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 (BJP), and going to jail as a political prisoner. He has been involved with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

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 (National Patriotism Organization).

He is known for his oratory skills and has been compared to other leaders such as Sushma Swaraj

Sushma Swaraj

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 and the late Pramod Mahajan

Pramod Mahajan

Pramod Venkatesh Mahajan was a prominent Indian politician. He was one of the most powerful second generation leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party and, at the time of his death, was locked in a power struggle over who would take over the reins of the BJP when the current aging leadership...

.

Offices held

Sharma has represented Mahendragarh, and is the leader of the BJP legislative party in Haryana. He was previously president of the BJP in his home state of Haryana.

He has been Minister of Education in the Haryana Government under the successive governments of Chaudhary Bansi Lal

Bansi Lal

Chaudhary Bansi Lal was an Indian freedom fighter, senior Congress leader, former Chief Minister of Haryana and considered by many to be the architect of modern Haryana. He was born in a Jat family of Golagarh village in Bhiwani district of Haryana. He served three separate terms as Chief...

 and Om Prakash Chautala

Om Prakash Chautala

Om Prakash Chautala is an Indian politician from the state of Haryana and the leader of the Indian National Lok Dal political party. He is a former Chief Minister of Haryana. Presently, he is the Leader of Opposition in the Haryana Vidhan Sabha.Chautala is the son of Chaudhari Devi Lal, a former...

. Sharma launched a novel training module, Tarang, for JBT teachers to improve the standard of primary education in the state. In 1999, as leader of the BJP legislature party he decided to withdraw support from the Bansilal Government and endorse the Om Prakash Choutala Government instead.

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