Kartikeya Sharma (born 14 May 1981) is a Rajya Sabha MP and media baron from Haryana where he won defeating the congress heavy weight Ajay Maken in a high decibel election on 10 June 2022. Kartikeya is the founder ITV Media Network which has many news channels including National, English, Hindi & 7 regional channels along with print newspapers including the prestigious Sunday Guardian newspaper Daily Guardian and Aaj Samaj .

Personal life

Sharma was born to politician

Venod Sharma Venod Sharma (born 10 January 1948) is an Indian politician and the founder of the Jan Chetna Party. He was student leader and associated with INC student outfit NSUI. He made it into political mainstream when he was elected as MLA from Banur i ...

and Shakti Rani Sharma on 14 May 1981. He is married to author and professor Aishwarya Sharma (daughter of

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politician

Kuldeep Sharma Kuldeep Sharma (born 3 April 1957) is an Indian politician and a member of Legislative assembly from Ganaur in Haryana. He was first elected in 2009 Haryana Legislative Assembly election, 2009 Haryana Legislative assembly election as an Indian ...

, former speaker of

Haryana Legislative Assembly The Haryana Legislative Assembly or the Haryana Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral state legislature of Haryana state in India. The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Chandigarh, the capital of the state. The Vidhan Sabha comprises 90 Members of L ...

) since 2011.

Political career

Kartikeya Sharma is elected to

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in 2022 Rajya Sabha elections. Kartikeya Sharma was the member of a parliamentary delegation led by Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha Sh. Harivansh Ji to participate in the 145th assembly of the Interparliamentary Union (IPU) held at Kigali, the capital of Rwanda from 11-15 October, 2022.Almost after two decades India also assumed chair of Executive Committee of Inter-Parliamentary Union of 178 nations at 145th IPU in Kigali. It was a historic win for India. He has recently been honoured with Person Of The Year Award. He recently attended the Shri Parshuram Mahakumbh organised in Karnal.

Career

Kartikeya Sharma finished his Bachelors in Business Administration From Kings College London. In 2007, Sharma launched ITV Media. He also launched a network of regional TV channels through

India News ITV Network, (also Information TV Pvt Ltd), is a media group founded, owned and promoted by Kartikeya Sharma, the son of Venod Sharma, a politician. Presently, it owns 12 news channels, a Hindi daily, '' Aaj Samaj, daily newspaper, The Dail ...

; as of 2015 India News operated five regional channels broadcasting across

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...

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and

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

Uttarakhand Uttarakhand ( , or ; , ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; the official name until 2007), is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the "Devbhumi" (literally 'Land of the Gods') due to its religious significance and ...

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

and

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...

. Later on, Sharma acquired, through ITV Media, English language news channel NewsX. He entered the print media with the acquisition of

The Sunday Guardian ''The Sunday Guardian'' is an Indian Sunday newspaper, founded by journalist and politician M. J. Akbar, and currently owned by iTV Network. It was launched on 31 January 2010 from New Delhi and is printed in New Delhi, Mumbai and Chandigarh. ...

, an English language Sunday newspaper, and Aaj Samaj, a

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language

daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...

. He has also been involved with News Wire Services, an Indian TV news wire service. Kartikeya Sharma is the Owner of Picaadily Hotels, Which Along With Hyatt owns a Range of Properties in Delhi and Parts of Haryana and Punjab. In 2015, Sharma set up ''Pro Sportify'' with Ashish Chadha, CEO of the Sporty Solutionz, a company that runs the

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Awards

Kartikeya Sharma got the Champions of Change Award 2022. He also won the award for the Best CEO of the Year at the 2016 eNBA Awards.

References

External links

*Kartikeya Sharma'
linkedin profile
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