Sanjay Jha (politician)

Sanjay Jha did his schooling at Mount Carmel School (Bhagalpur)[2] and at The Bishop's School (Pune).[3] Thereafter he was graduated with distinction in economics from Fergusson College, Pune.[4][5] He then completed his post graduation in economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune.[4] He also holds an MBA degree from the XLRI - Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur.[4]

In a tweet, he claimed that Subramanian Swamy was a CIA agent on 25 April 2014, citing WikiLeaks.[16] Swamy served legal notice to Jha on 12 May and sued him for INR 3 crores.[17][18][16] He then tendered an official apology stating “I, therefore, regret any disrepute or pain caused to Dr. Swamy since that was never my intention”.[19][20] Earlier the same month, Jha also tweeted that Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the "weakest" Prime Minister of India, which drew strong reactions from the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP),[21][22][23] and led to his own party distancing themselves from the remarks.[23]

In November 2017 he shared photoshopped pictures of BJP leaders and later apologised.[24]

On 28 March 2019, he tweeted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi; "has white hair. But he sounds more like a blonde." drawing widespread criticism with the remarks being labeled sexist.[25] Jha also claimed that indelible voting ink used in the 2019 Indian general election to mark those voters that had already cast ballots was easily removable with nail polish.[26]

In 2020 he was sacked as the spokesperson of the Indian National Congress as he had openly expressed displeasure over the functioning of the Congress leadership and went on to say that his party lacks internal democracy and that decision-making powers are limited to Delhi. He had also alleged that the party high command did not consult its spokesperson before banning them from participating in TV debates last year.[27] The party justified his suspension as "anti-party activities" and "breach of discipline".[28]