Ashwini Kumar Chopra

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Ashwini Kumar Chopra
Karnal
Personal details
Born(1956-06-11)11 June 1956
Cricketer, Journalist, Politician

Ashwini Kumar Chopra (11 June 1956 – 18 January 2020), was a senior journalist and resident editor of the

Jagat Narain and father Romesh Chander were assassinated in 1981 and 1984 respectively. In their collective bid to curb terrorism through a drive by the journalists and activists, Punjab Kesari is commonly called the newspaper of martyr journalists.[2][3]

Punjab Kesari, Delhi with daily Special Editorial at page one

Education

After graduating from

Punjab University. In his quest for in depth study of journalism, he opted for a master's degree in journalism from University of California, Berkeley and thereafter under the guidance of his grandfather and father stepped into journalism and while being in USA Ashwini worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for about 6 months and later he worked with The Times Group
in Delhi, India.

Cricketing career

Prior to entering journalism full-time, he played under the name of Ashwini Minna for Punjab in the Ranji Trophy and played a total of 25 first class matches between 1975–76 and 1979–80.[4] He was a leg-spinner and was being considered for the Indian team from 1975 to 1977, but could not do much against the MCC touring team of 1976–77. His maiden first-class wicket was that of Sunil Gavaskar in the Irani Cup match of 1975–76.[5]

Career

Ashwini is well known for his daily page one, Special Editorial with bold and popular wording.

Karnal. He was the New MP from Karnal.[7]
He won by a huge margin.

General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Ashwini Kumar Chopra 594,817 49.84% +26.98%
INC Dr. Arvind Kumar Sharma 234,670 19.66% -17.91%
INLD Jaswinder Singh Sandhu 187,902 15.74% +15.74%
BSP Virender Maratha 102,628 8.60% -19.56%
NOTA None of the above 2,929 0.25% ---
Majority 360,147 30.18% +15.47%
Turnout 1,193,500
BJP gain from INC Swing

References

  1. ^ e-paper : Punjab Keari
  2. ^ Road from Delhi to New Delhi : 14 April 2013 The Sunday Standard
  3. ISBN 1850654344, [1]
  4. ^ "CA details".
  5. ^ "CA details".
  6. ^ The Transformation for a Change : Media Coverage on Mar23,2014
  7. ^ Narendra Modi's : Haryana Rally on Mar29,2014
Political offices
Preceded by Member of Parliament
for
Karnal

2014 – 2019 		Succeeded by
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