The daughter of former Doordarshan chief Bhaskar Ghose, Sagarika Ghose is married to journalist and news anchor Rajdeep Sardesai.
File photo of Sagarika Ghose. (sagarikaghose/X)
Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC), which is in power in West Bengal, has nominated veteran journalist Sagarika Ghose as one of its candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections.
The party made the formal announcement in this regard on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, 11 February. It led to humorous exchanges between rival political parties and its supporters on the social media platform.
Ghose was one of the four candidates the TMC fielded for the Rajya Sabha elections.
The other three are Sushmita Dev, Mohammed Nadimul Haque, and Mamata Bala Thakur. Of them, Haque is being renominated to the Upper House of Parliament.
We are pleased to announce the candidature of @sagarikaghose, @SushmitaDevAITC, @MdNadimulHaque6 and Mamata Thakur for the forthcoming Rajya Sabha elections.
We extend our heartfelt wishes to them and may they work towards upholding Trinamool’s enduring legacy of indomitable…
— All India Trinamool Congress (@AITCofficial) February 11, 2024
Sagarika Ghose is a veteran journalist with both print and television backgrounds.
The daughter of former Doordarshan chief Bhaskar Ghose, she is married to journalist and news anchor Rajdeep Sardesai.
She has a bachelor’s degree in history from St Stephen’s College in New Delhi. and earned a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University, where she completed her postgraduate studies in Modern History.
She was one of the recipients of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship in 1987. The postgraduate scholarship — the oldest of its kind in the world, having been established in 1902 — is awarded to international students to attend college at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Throughout her career, Ghose worked for various news organisations, including the BBC, the Times of India, and CNN-IBN, where her husband worked previously. Rajdeep Sardesai is now a news anchor at India Today television channel.
Ghose also wrote several books, including a biography of former prime ministers Indira Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
She is currently a columnist across several news publications.
Less than an hour after the TMC announced it was fielding Ghose for the Lok Sabha polls, BJP national spokesperson Amit Malviya posted a video clip of X with Rajdeep Sardesai in a debate.
He claimed about Ghose being fielded by the TMC in the Rajya Sabha polls: “Rajdeep Sardesai’s efforts have been rewarded.”
He added: “But this should hardly surprise anyone. Rajdeep and Sagarika represent Delhi’s rotten ‘lapdog media’, who sold their pen (now air time and YouTube channels too) for Padma (Congress gave Rajdeep one), positions in Govt institutions, access and of course RS. [sic]”
Malviya also said: “But it is good that these cretins are getting exposed. If India has to prosper, Indian media needs conscientious journalists too.”
Rajdeep Sardesai’s efforts have been rewarded. But his credibility as a journalist is so low, that even a regional outfit like the TMC, chose to nominate his wife to the Rajya Sabha instead of him. But this should hardly surprise anyone. Rajdeep and Sagarika represent Delhi’s… pic.twitter.com/EP9YtHKYXU
— Amit Malviya (मोदी का परिवार) (@amitmalviya) February 11, 2024
The TMC was quick to reply, with its West Bengal spokesperson Debangshu Bhattacharya Dev taking the humorous route,
He posted a clip of a song from the 1995 Govinda and Karishma Kapoor-starrer Coolie No 1, and captioned it with the lyrics of the song. and the party’s official handle retweeted it.
तुझको मिर्ची लगी तो मैं क्या करूँ? 😂 https://t.co/ofGYA8PBNE pic.twitter.com/Mc96M6qOqb
— Debangshu Bhattacharya Dev (@ItsYourDev) February 11, 2024
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