Jogendra Sharma is a Delhi based senior CPI(M) leader. He is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and also a Central Secretariat Member. He was the State Secretary of the Delhi party [CPI(M)] from 1985 to 1997.
He came in contact with the CPI(M) in 1969 through his college teachers, when he was in his 1st year in Delhi College (now Zakir Husain Delhi College) in Delhi University. SFI, The Students Federation Of India came into being in 1970 and since the beginning of SFI he worked both on the Students front and the Trade Union front.
He went on to work extensively for the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), formally, from 1977 to 1990.
He also taught Hindi Literature in Swami Shraddhanand College, University of Delhi from 1974 to 1994. He took voluntary retirement as a Hindi Reader from The University Of Delhi after 20 years of service in 1994.