India tv hindi rajat sharma biography

Rajat Sharma (born 18 February 1957) is an Indian journalist and businessperson acting as the chairman and Editor-in-chief of India TV, an Indian news channel. After his release, he pursued his higher education at the Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and joined Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).

The companies are Knowledge Tree Infrastructure Limited, India TV Interactive Media Private Limited, India TV Film Academy Private Limited, India TV Broadcast Company Private Limited and Independent Media Private Limited.

Ritu Dhawan, his wife, co-founded Independent News Service with Rajat Sharma. With his trademark smile, Rajat has grilled over 750 personalities in India’s longest running television show, which got him the Indian Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 1997, he quit Zee Group and formed the Independent News Service, INS– the company that owns the channel - India TV. He took the famous property, Aap Ki Adalat with him.

As a youngster, Rajat Sharma was drawn to the Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) movement, against the Congress rule in Bihar and the Centre, when Mrs. Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister. He spent 11 months in jail during the imposition of Emergency in India.

He did his graduation in Commerce from Sriram College of Commerce in Delhi. Sharma is said to be very close to the ruling BJP and the late Arun Jaitley, a BJP politician and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.In 2014, India TV’s former anchor Tanu Sharma filed FIR against two India TV executives, including Sharma, alleging that she faced harassment in the workplace leading her to attempt suicide. In response, Sharma and Ritu Dhiman threatened to pursue legal action against her.

In May 2023, Sharma filed a lawsuit against Ravindra Kumar Choudhary, leading the Delhi High Court to restrain Choudhary from using the names “Baap Ki Adalat” and “Jhandiya TV,” which were deemed deceptively similar to Sharma’s show “Aap Ki Adalat.” The court ordered that Choudhary must cease using Sharma’s images and name across various platforms.

During his college days, he became friends with Arun Jaitley, India’s current finance minister in the Narendra Modi government, and Vijay Goel of the BJP, when he became the General Secretary of Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU).

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His transition from a successful print editor to an international television personality, and from a ‘manager-entrepreneur’ to an ‘entrepreneur-manager’ presents a unique story in Indian media.

In 1995, Rajat created history by launching India’s first private television news bulletin, which was beamed across satellite footprints in Asia, Europe and North Africa.

Subsequently, in 1975, when the Emergency was declared by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, he was arrested and imprisoned in Tihar Jail for 11 months for his activities with the movement. When Rajat launched India TV, no one had imagined that in four years, it would become India’s number one news channel. Rajat Sharma started his career as a reporter with a print magazine, Onlooker as a trainee.

She is the CEO and Managing Director of the channel. Later he became the Chief of Bureau and Editor of Onlooker.