Rajeev Shukla

Rajeev Shukla

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Rajeev Shukla Profile

  • Name:
  • Rajeev Shukla
  • Born:
  • September 13, 1959
  • Spouse:
  • Anuradha Prasad

Rajeev Shukla Biography

Rajeev Shukla is an Indian journalist and politician. He has served as the chairman of Indian Premier League and he resigned the position on 1 June 2013 following the spot-fixing scandals in the IPL. His is also known as political commentator, television host and currently the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Planning, Government of India and secretary of the All India Congress Committee.


Rajiv Shukla was born on 13 September 1959 in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He has been an active journalist before taking politics as his career. He worked as a reporter for Hindi daily Jansatta till 1985 and then became special correspondent for Ravivar Magazine. He became a star anchor through Rubaru, a highly-popular television news show. He was a senior editor of The Observer group of newspapers till he joined Rajya Sabha in the year 2000. He was a member of Akhil Bhartiya Loktantrik Congress Party which merged with Indian National Congress in the year 2003. Soon after the merging, Shukla was appointed as a congress party spokesperson and was nominated as a secretary to the All India Congress Committee in January 2006. Now is in this position continuously for the second term.

 
Apart from politics, he also held positions related to sports and entertainment. He has held positions of Secretary of Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association and Manager of the Indian National Cricket Team. He is the Founder Director of BAG Films Limited, known for producing Bollywood films. He was appointed as the chief of IPL in the year 2011. He was reappointed as IPL chairman in 2012. But he has to resign his position following IPL Scandals. He is married to television anchor Anuradha Prasad, whose brother is Ravi Shankar Prasad – noted politician of BJP.

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