Sanjay Jha

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A proud believer of Gandhi and Nehrus ideology, Sanjay Jha is an Indian writer, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and politician. He is best known for serving as the national spokesperson of the Indian National Congress (INC), a post that he held from 2013 to 2020. Sanjay Jha is also the Executive Director of the world-famous Dale Carnegie Training operations in India.Sanjays father, who was a big admirer of the heroes of Indias freedom struggle, used to gift books of freedom struggle to Sanjay on his birthday every year. He grew up reading books like Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru and The story of My Experiments with Truth by Mahatma Gandhi. Upon reading those books, somewhere down the line, Sanjay got swayed by the ideology of Congress.Sanjay was a brilliant student throughout his academic life. While studying in school, he received several awards for academic excellence. Also, he graduated with distinction in Economics, and the academic glory continued till the time he finished his formal education.Sanjay started his corporate career as a sales executive at the Bharat Petroleum. Thereafter, he held various superior positions at several corporate giants. He was the vice president of Alliance Capital (Mumbai), an asset management company, from 1993 to 1996. He held the post of senior vice president at another investment management firm, ITC-Threadneedle (Mumbai), from 1996 to 1997. [6]Sanjay Jha LinkedIn.In 2000, he launched a cricket web portal, CricketNext.com, which featured everything about cricket from news to live coverage of cricket matches. The website was sold to the Network 18 Media Group in 2012, prior to Sanjays entry in politics. [7]Sanjay Jha LinkedIn.Sanjay ventured into politics by joining the Indian National Congress (INC) Party in 2012. In 2013, he was chosen as the national spokesperson for the INC. He represented the party on English TV news channel debates and panel discussions; however, he was never seen sharing the stage with political leaders of the party.After a thumping loss of the INC in 2014 and 2019 general elections, Sanjay became a vocal critic of the partys family culture. He questioned the high command on its laid-back and status-quoist approach. He demanded internal democracy and progressive reforms in the party. Sanjay also claimed that the INC had moved away from its core principles on which Gandhi and Nehru wanted to build the nation, India.Allegedly, his outspoken criticism of the high command led to his removal from the post of the national spokesperson of the Indian National Congress (INC) in June 2020.His journey with the party officially ended when he was also sacked from the primary membership of the INC on 15 July 2020 for anti-party activities and breach of discipline..Jha was also the president of the All India Professionals Congress (Mumbai) from 2017 until he voluntarily resigned from the post in July 2020. [8]Sanjay Jha Twitter Sanjay Jha with Shashi Tharoor and the All India Professionals Congress Team.