Supriya Shrinate (born 27 October 1977), also known as Supriya Srinet, is an Indian politician and former journalist who is a national spokesperson for the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

. She contested the

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(

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election) from Maharajganj constituency and lost. Shrinate worked for 18 years as a journalist. She began her career with ''

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'' and later joined

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as an assistant editor. She was working as an executive editor for '' ET Now'' of

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when she became active in politics.

Early life and education

Shrinate is the daughter of former MP Harsh Vardhan from the

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. She was educated at the

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. She then graduated with a Master of Arts in History from the

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Journalism

Shrinate worked for 18 years as a journalist in print and electronic media. In 2001, she began her career with

as a special correspondent. In 2004, she joined

as an assistant editor. In 2008, she joined ET Now as chief editor – news. She was named policy editor and executive editor for ET Now the same year.

Politics

In 2019, she resigned from her post as an executive editor in ET Now to contest the 2019 Indian general election. She contested the Maharajganj constituency as an

candidate and lost to Pankaj Choudhary of BJP, coming in third with 72,516 votes and 5.91% of the vote and her deposit was forfeited since she was unable to secure enough votes. This was the same constituency from which her father Harsh Vardhan had earlier been an MP. According to her 2019 Lok Sabha election nomination filing, she has a net worth of 8.5 crores. In 2019, she was appointed as the spokesperson of the

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. She participated in TV debates as Congress spokesperson. She also participated in the UP Assembly Elections 2022 as a star campaigner of the Indian National Congress. Congress won only 2% of the popular vote in this election. In 2022, Shrinate was appointed Chairman of Social Media & Digital Platforms of the Indian National Congress.

References

External links

Keynote by Supriya Shrinate, Chief Editor-News, ET Now at Institute for Competitiveness, India part of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School.
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