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EARLY LIFE

Vishwas was born on 10 February 1970 in a lowermiddle-class family in the town of Pilkhuwa in Uttar Pradesh, where he studied at Lala Ganga Sahay School.
His father, Chandra Pal Sharma, was a lecturer at R.S.S. Degree College in Pilkhuwa and his mother, Rama Sharma, was a housewife.
Vishwas was the youngest child and has three brothers and a sister.

He studied at the Inter College and then joined Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College.
However, engineering did not interest Vishwas and he left it to study Hindi literature, in which he subsequently earned a PhD.
It was while studying for his PhD that Vishwas changed his name from Viswas Kumar Sharma to Kumar Vishwas, to maintain an identity separate from his caste.

In 1994, he became a lecturer in Rajasthan, then taught Hindi literature at Lala Lajpat Rai College.In 2012, he joined the newly-formed AAP as a volunteer worker.
Vishwas routinely gives performances in which he demonstrates his poetry and love for Hindi, Urdu and Sanskrit literature.

Vishwas has known Arvind Kejriwal since 2005 and joined the India Against Corruption movement led by Anna Hazare.
He contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election as an AAP candidate from Amethi, but lost to then incumbent Rahul Gandhi.
In 2016, Vishwas was accused by a campaign volunteer of molestation and making “sexually coloured” remarks. The courts ordered a FIR to be registered because of the complaint but an investigation by Delhi Police found no significant evidence to substantiate it.

In July 2017, Vishwas was accused of copyright infringement by Amitabh Bachchan in relation to a posting on YouTube of a poem by his father Harivansh Rai Bachchan.The video was taken down and a compensation of Rs. 32 was paid.