Media tycoon Kartikeya Sharma, has made his debut in politics by getting elected as a Rajya Sabha member.
Kartikeya Sharma is the founder of ITV network (Information Pvt. Ltd.) an Indian media company, house to India News, NewsX, and The Sunday Guardian.
Kartikeya Sharma is the son of the former union minister Venod Sharma. The media baron stood independently in the nail-biting elections held for the Haryana seat, and four other states.
Sharma is the owner of the Piccadily group, a hospitality and industrial venture, which runs Hyatt branded Hyatt regency hotels in Gurgoan and Ludhiana and Hilton branded Hilton Hotel in Delhi. In 2019 he introduced an Artificial Intelligence voice assistant to the NewsX studios; the NewsX AI is claimed as the world’s first integrated voice assistant to be used in a newsroom and Sharma has been referred to as a pioneer of innovative technologies in the media industry.
