Anand Sharma is a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
Sharma was a prominent leader in the student and youth movement in India, a founder member of the Congress Party's students wing the NSUI. He was also a former President of the Youth Congress at a time when that organization was proactive on the issue of the abolition of apartheid in South Africa.
Sharma asserts that the country needed investment in the manufacturing sector and the cost of credit must be brought down for this purpose.In February 2012, Sharma led a business delegation of more than 120 people to Pakistan for improving trade ties.
During this visit, he discussed the revision of the existing visa bilateral agreement, signed in 1974, with his Pakistani counterpart Makhdoom Muhammad Ameen Faheem, to facilitate travel by bonafide businessmen from both the countries
