Ravi Kant Sharma

Ravi Kant Sharma is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party serving as councillor of ward no. 3, Chandigarh and 27th Mayor of Chandigarh as elected on 8 January 2021. He is the eighth mayoral candidate from the Bharatiya Janata Party to be elected as the Mayor of Municipal Corporation Chandigarh, after Raj Bala Malik in 2020.[1][2][3][4]

Ravi Kant Sharma
Mayor, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh
Assumed office
8 January 2021
Councillor Ward No. 3 Chandigarh
In office
1 January 2017 – In office
Preceded byRajbala Malik
ConstituencyChandigarh
Personal details
Born16 December 1967 (1967-12-16) (age 53)
Una, Himachal Pradesh, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)Rama Sharma
ChildrenHitesh & Tanishq
ResidenceChandigarh

Ravi Kant Sharma joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at the young age of 15 in the year 1982 and joined Bharatiya Janata Party in the following year of 1983. He spent the next 5 years as a member of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) till 1989 before moving to Chandigarh for studying computers in the same year. He joined the Bharatiya Janata Party's Chandigarh unit in the year 1996.

He assumed office as Mandal President, BJP Chandigarh in the year 2006 and progressed on to District President in the year 2012.


References
  1. BJP’s Ravi Kant Sharma is new Chandigarh mayor
  2. BJP’s Ravi Kant Sharma elected Chandigarh Mayor
  3. BJP candidate Ravikant Sharma wins Chandigarh municipal corporation mayoral poll
  4. Mayor, Chandigarh


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.