Raghav Lakhanpal Sharma is an Indian politician. He was a member of the

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-p ...

elected in 2014 from

Saharanpur Saharanpur is a city and a municipal corporation in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is also the administrative headquarters of Saharanpur district. Saharanpur city's name was given after the Saint Shah Haroon Chishti. Saharanpur is declared as on ...

as a candidate of the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Mod ...

Life

He is educated at

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and International Management Institute. He was the member of

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Legislative Assembly thrice. He became a politician after the tragic murder of his father Nirbhay Pal Sharma in 2000 who was himself a Bhartiya Janta Party politician from Sarsawa. Raghav later stood for the by election and won handsomely but lost in the 2002 Assembly election from the same seat. He later won from

Nagar seat in 2007 and reclaimed it in 2012 Assembly Polls before entering into Lok Sabha in a highly polarised election in which he defeated nearest Congress candidate by 65 thousand votes. He is also the Vice President of BJP's youth wing BJYM. On 21 April 2017, Lakhanpal and BJP MLA Brijesh Choudhary were arrested along with a party member for alleged involvement in violence at Sadak Dudhli village in

district. On 22 December 2017 he moved a private member bill in the Lok Sabha seeking India must advocate a stringent population policy to overcome the rising population growth and disallow subsidies to those who produce more than two children.

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People from Saharanpur Living people The Doon School alumni India MPs 2014–2019 Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh 1974 births {{BJP-politician-stub