Balkrishna Sharma was an Indian politician. He was a leader of the Communist Party of India and the Kisan Sabha. Sharma was active in organising peasants movement in northern Madhya Pradesh for various decades.[1][2][3] Together with other CPI leaders such as Khan Shakir Ali Khan he organised occupations of estates of ex-princes and other large landowners.[4] As of 1973 he was a member of the Central Kisan Committee, the national leadership of the All India Kisan Sabha.[5]
Sharma contested the Gird seat in the 1962 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. He finished in third place, with 5,305 votes (18.22%).[6]
Ten years later, Sharma won the Gird seat in a June 1972 by-election. The Indian National Congress had declared its support for Sharma's candidature, but local Congress leaders in Gwalior offered little support for him.[3][7] He got 12,704 votes compared to 11,915 votes for the Bharatiya Jana Sangh candidate Maheshdutta Mishra.[2][3]
Sharma lost the Gird seat in the 1977 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election. He finished in fourth place with 2,348 votes (6.04% of the votes in the constituency).[8]
- ^ Christophe Jaffrelot (1999). The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics: 1925 to the 1990s : Strategies of Identity-building, Implantation and Mobilisation (with Special Reference to Central India). Penguin Books India. p. 251. ISBN 978-0-14-024602-5.
- ^ a b Election Commission of India. Bye-election results 1952-95
- ^ a b c Link: Indian Newsmagazine, Vol. 14, Part 1. 1972. p. 28.
- ^ Communist Party of India. National Council (1970). Resolutions of the National Council of the Communist Party of India, New Delhi, 1 to 5 October 1970. The Party. p. 78.
- ^ All India Kisan Sabha (1974). Twentyfirst National Conference of the All-India Kisan Sabha, Bhatinda (Punjab) 19th to 23rd September 1973. B. Jha for the All-India Kisan Sabha. p. 107.
- ^ Election Commission of India. REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA PRADESH
- ^ Asian Recorder, Vol. 18. 1972. p. viii.
- ^ Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1977 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MADHYA PRADESH