Aveek Sarkar

Aveek Sarkar (Bengali: অভীক সরকার) is an Indian newspaper promoter and proprietor. He is the present Chairman of Press Trust of India and Vice Chairman and Editor Emeritus of ABP Group. Previously he was editor-in-chief of Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph. He was also the Chief Editor of ABP Group of publications.[1] He was ranked as one of the most powerful Indians in 2009 by The Indian Express.[2] He played vital roles during the formation of Penguin India, the Indian counterpart of Penguin Books and during the acquisition of STAR News in 2003.[1][3]

Aveek Sarkar
Born
Kolkata
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta
OccupationJournalist
OrganizationABP Group
Spouse(s)Rakhi Sarkar
Children
Parent(s)

Sarkar spent a year as an understudy to Sir Harold Evans in Britain, taking time to understand what went on at the previous two papers at which Evans had worked - The Northern Echo and the Manchester Evening News - before joining him at The Sunday Times.

Personal life

Sarkar is known to having strong opinions about most issues. He refrains from bringing most of these stances to his business and editorial meetings, according to a profile by Nicholas Coleridge in Paper Tigers.

Controversies

In a rally in Durgapur city during the election campaign for 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Mamata Banerjee tore into the ABP calling it the “most destructive element in Bengal”. During her speech, Mamata made a bewildering array of allegations: she accused ABP and its editor-in-chief Aveek Sarkar of leading to the Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s downfall, supporting the Bharatiya Janata Party, propping up the current CPI(M)-Congress alliance and generally “spreading slander against Bengal”. She said that "Aveek Sarkar tells me that whatever I serve the people, they will be forced to eat that.” She also challenged Aveek Sarkar to contest in the elections.[4]

References
  1. Source: ABP Corporate Website Archived 14 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine 12 October 01:00 AM IST
  2. Source: Indian Express.
  3. "Aveek Sarkar Emerging Star Winner". Financial Express. 11 September 2003. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  4. https://scroll.in/article/806409/election-brawl-its-mamata-versus-the-telegraph-as-the-west-bengal-polls-heat-up
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