About Umesh Sharma
Umesh Sharma was an Indian politician.
Umesh Sharma Kau is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Sharma is a member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Raipur constituency in Dehradun district.
In the 2012 Uttarakhand Assembly elections, Umesh Sharma Kau, then with the Indian National Congress, defeated Trivendra Singh Rawat by a narrow margin of 0.62% votes.
In 2016, Umesh Sharma Kau along with other Congress MLAs rebelled and switched over to BJP.
He was re-elected in 2017 and 2022 as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate with huge margin of 37.29% and 27.49% respectively.
Controversies In February 2026, police registered a case against BJP MLA Umesh Sharma Kau and several of his supporters for allegedly assaulting the Director of Elementary Education, Ajay Kumar Naudiyal, at the Uttarakhand Directorate of Elementary Education in Dehradun during a dispute over the renaming of a school.
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