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'''Brij Mohan Lal Sharma''' (born 1903, [[Beawar]]) was an Indian politician.<ref name="SudSud1953">{{cite book|author1=S. P. Singh Sud|author2=Ajit Singh Sud|title=Indian Elections and Legislators|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ATs0AAAAIAAJ|year=1953|publisher=All India Publications|page=288}}</ref> He became a lawyer in 1938. He was arrested in connection with the 1940 [[Satyagrah]].<ref name="SudSud1953"/> Sharma won the Beawar City North seat in the 1951 Ajmer Legislative Assembly election as an [[Indian National Congress]] candidate. He obtained 2,372 votes (38.92%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/StatRep_51_AJMER.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1951 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF AJMER]''</ref> After the election, he served as Minister of Education, Revenue and Local Self-Government in the Ajmer State cabinet.<ref>{{cite book|title=Hindustan Year-book and Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1dU5AQAAIAAJ|year=1954|publisher=M. C. Sarkar|page=631}}</ref><ref name="Committee1953">{{cite book|author=Indian National Congress. All India Congress Committee|title=Year of Freedom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REPVAAAAMAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Indian National Congress|page=358}}</ref><br />
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After the merger of the Ajmer State with [[Rajasthan]], Sharma was elected from the Beawar constituency of the [[Rajasthan Legislative Assembly]] in 1957. He obtained 10,750<br />
votes (42.05%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_Rajasthan_1957.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1957 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF RAJASTHAN]''</ref> During the 1960s, the Beawar Congress was torn by strife between Sharma and [[Chiman Singh Lodha]] (nick-named 'B' and 'C', respectively). The internal problems of the Congress Party led to an electoral defeat in the 1962 election.<ref name="ra">{{cite book|title=The Political Science Review, Vol. 12,&nbsp;Part 3–4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OIokAQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Department of Political Science, University of Rajasthan|page=222}}</ref> Sharma, who contested as the official Congress candidate, finished second with 9,575 votes (30.48%). He lost the seat to the communist candidate [[Swami Kumaranand]].<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_Rajasthan_1962.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1962 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF RAJASTHAN]''</ref> Sharma finished second in the 1967 election as well, with 14,187 votes (34.15%).<ref>Election Commission of India. ''[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20Report%20Rajasthan%201967.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1967 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF RAJASTHAN]''</ref><br />
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