Rajeev Shukla (born 13 September 1959) is an Indian politician, former journalist, political commentator and the former chairman of

Indian Premier League The Indian Premier League (IPL), also known as TATA IPL for sponsorship reasons, is a men's T20 franchise cricket league of India. It is annually contested by ten teams based out of seven Indian cities and three Indian states. The leagu ...

. In 2015, he was re-appointed unanimously as the Chairman of

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by the

BCCI The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the national governing body for cricket in India. Its headquarters are situated at Cricket centre, Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The BCCI is the richest governing body of cricket in the worl ...

. On 18 Dec 2020, he was elected unopposed Vice President of the BCCI.

Early life

Rajeev Shukla was born on 13 September 1959 in

Kanpur Kanpur or Cawnpore ( /kɑːnˈpʊər/ pronunciation (help·info)) is an industrial city in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1207, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations o ...

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. He was educated at Pandit Prithi Nath College,

and at

Christ Church College, Kanpur Christ Church College, Kanpur is a college established in 1866, affiliated with Kanpur University, in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. Earlier in 1840, SPG Mission School was established to educated Christian students. Later its name turned to prese ...

. He then studied law at

Vikramajit Singh Sanatan Dharma College Vikramajit Singh Sanatan Dharma College (VSSD college), formerly Sanatan Dharma College, is situated on the right bank of the Ganges river at Nawabganj in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established in 1921. Affiliations At first, the col ...

. Before entering politics, he was a reporter for

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

daily '' Jansatta''. Shukla held this job until 1985, when he became a special

correspondent A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, locati ...

for ''Ravivar Magazine''. He was hired as a senior editor and he continued in that job until being elected to the

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

in 2000. He has now joined the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

Political activities

Running as a member of the Akhil Bhartiya Loktantrik Congress Party, Shukla won by a large margin. In 2003, his party merged with the

, and Shukla was appointed as a spokesperson. He was nominated as a secretary to the All India Congress Committee in January 2006. In March 2006, Shukla was elected for a second term. Shukla and

Ranjeet Ranjan Ranjeet Ranjan (born 7 January 1974) also known as Ranjeeta is an Indian politician serving as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Chhattisgarh. She was member of the 14th Lok Sabha as a Member of Parliament from Supaul, Bihar from the Ind ...

were elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Chhattisgarh in June 2022.

References

External links

The Indian Express: Columnists > Rajeev Shukla
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