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ET Now Executive Editor Supriya Shrinate Gets Congress Ticket To Contest Lok Sabha Polls From UP’s Maharajganj
Swarajya Staff
Mar 29, 2019, 01:21 PM | Updated 01:21 PM IST
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Executive editor and anchor of business news channel ET Now, Supriya Shrinate has announced on Twitter that she will be stepping down from her position at the channel and will be contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from the Maharajganj constituency in Uttar Pradesh on a Congress ticket.
I have stepped down as Executive Editor at @ETNOWlive to pursue the next challenging phase of my life outside media I thank The Times group for the most exciting 10 yrs of my journalism Wish the channel, mgmt all my colleagues the very best @vineetjaintimes @Anandmk @nikunjdalmia
— Supriya Shrinate (@SupriyaShrinate) March 29, 2019
Late father of Supriya Shrinate, Congress politician Harsh Vardhan, had been elected from the same constituency two times.
I will be taking an active plunge in politics, am grateful to @INCIndia @RahulGandhi @priyankagandhi @JM_Scindia for trusting me with Maharajganj. It will be an honour to keep my late fatherâs legacy alive. I look forward to making a meaningful contribution
— Supriya Shrinate (@SupriyaShrinate) March 29, 2019
Supriya Shrinate will be replacing the Congress’s previously announced candidate for the constituency, Tanushree Tripathi, who is the daughter of murder-convicted politician Amarmani Tripathi.
This is not the first time the Congress has fielded a well-known journalist as a candidate for Parliament. As per media reports, the party had previously nominated journalist Kumar Ketkar to the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra.
Ketkar had been a well known name in the Marathi-language media, but was accused of having a pro-Congress slant in his news coverage.
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