Om Shrikrishan Birla

Political Career

He has been active in politics since his college days. He was president of the student union in 1979. For 12 years since 1991, Mr. Birla was a key leader in Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha as president at state level first, followed by holding the position of vice-president at the national level.

Legislative Assembly

Om Birla won his first assembly elections from Kota South, Rajasthan in 2003. He defeated Shanti Dhariwal from Congress by a margin of 10,101 votes. In the next assembly elections in year 2008, he defended his seat with a comfortable margin of 24,300 votes to his nearest candidate Ram Kishan Verma from Congress. Before becoming a Member of Parliament, he won his third assembly election against Pankaj Mehta of Congress by close to 50,000 votes in 2013. During his tenure in 2003-08, he was the Parliamentary Secretary (MoS rank) in Rajasthan Government.

Member of Parliament

He contested the 16th Lok Sabha elections from Kota-Bundi, Rajasthan constituency and secured a comfortable victory by a margin of 2,000,782 votes over his nearest rival Ijyaraj Singh from Congress in May 2014. BJP swept the general elections in Rajasthan winning all the 25 seats.

He is a member of the Standing Committee on Energy in Parliament, member of Committee on Petitions and Consultative Committee for Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.