Ram Swaroop Sharma (10 June 1958 – 17 March 2021) was an Indian politician and a member of the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

(BJP). He was elected to the

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of Parliament of India which is Bicameralism, bicameral, where the upper house is Rajya Sabha. Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by a ...

in 2014 and 2019.

Career

Born in Jogindernagar in the

Mandi district Mandi district is one of the central districts of Himachal Pradesh state in northern India. The town of Mandi is the headquarters of the district. The main native language is Mandeali. As of 2011, it is the second most populous district of ...

Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; Sanskrit: ''himācāl prādes;'' "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a States and union territories of India, state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen Indian Himalayan ...

. Sharma was the Organising Secretary of BJP (Mandi District) and was later elevated as Organizing Secretary of BJP (Himachal Pradesh). He also served as the Vice Chairman of the H.P. State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation. He contested Mandi seat in

2014 Indian general election General elections were held in India in nine phases from 7 April to 12 May 2014 to elect the members of the 16th Lok Sabha. With 834 million registered voters, they were the largest-ever elections in the world until being surpassed by the 2019 ...

as BJP's candidate. He won the Mandi seat in 2014 on BJP ticket beating Smt. Pratibha Singh of the INC by a margin of 39796 votes. The BJP swept the election in Himachal Pradesh winning all 4 Lok Sabha seats. He was re-elected in 2019.

Death

He died on 17 March 2021 in New Delhi. He was found hanging in his room and the Delhi Police are investigating his death as a suicide.

References

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