Anand Sharma
Member of Parliament
Party: Indian National Congress (INC)

Flat No. 303
Silver Arch Apartments
22, Ferozeshah Road
New Delhi-110001
Phone :91-11-23752444
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Mr. Sharma is a member of the Rajya Sabha and represents the state of Himachal Pradesh. He is, presently, the official spokesman of the Congress Party, a position he also held in 1989. He is also a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence in the current Lok Sabha.
Well-conversant with Parliamentary and Legislative procedures and International Law, Mr. Sharma has presided over the sittings of the House for two years from 1986-1988 as a member of the panel of Chairperson of Rajya Sabha.

Mr. Sharma was the Chairman of the First Non-Aligned Youth Conference; National Preparatory Committee for XII World Youth and Students Festival; International Youth Conference Against Apartheid; World Youth Action Against Apartheid; and Indian Anti Apartheid Movement. He is, currently, the Chairman of Indo-South Africa Friendship Association.

Mr. Sharma has been a member of several official Indian delegations abroad. He was a member of the Indian delegation to the UN General Assembly session and Special UN session on Palestine at Geneva in 1988. He was also a member of the Indian delegation to Afghanistan in 1988-1989, member of the Commonwealth Observer Group to Namibia in 1989, member of the Indian delegation to ANC Conference in Durban, South Africa and a member of the Commonwealth Observer mission to South Africa in 1992. He was also a part of the Indian National Congress (INC) delegation to UK in 2001 and INC delegation for the Labour Party meeting at Bournemouth in UK in 2003. In 2004, Mr. Sharma went to Malaysia for the United Malay National Organization's 55th Annual Conference at Kuala Lumpur as a part of INC delegation.

Mr. Sharma was also appointed Commonwealth Secretary-General's Observer for South African Transition Process and Elections in 1994 and was special envoy of the Prime Minister to Algeria, Sahara, Tunisia, PLO and South Africa from 1988 to 1992.
A lawyer by profession, Mr. Sharma was a visiting faculty, Harvard, School of International Studies and School of Asian Studies, Columbia University, New York, in 1988.