User:Meneerajgupta/sandbox

About
Neeraj Gupta is an Indian Journalist, Media Professional and Cartoonist. He is the founder and Editor in Chief of Parliamentary Business. Since 2010, he has been the author and editor of 11 editions of 'Representatives at Work', the annual research report book about Parliament and Parliamentarians' performance. He initiated a campaign based on promoting voter awareness "Vote for India", his campaign was supported by the Election Commission of India.

Early Life
Neeraj Gupta was born on 7th July 1977 in Sagar Madhya Pradesh. He completed his schooling at Government Higher Secondary School, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh. He completed his Graduation from Dr Hari Singh Gour University in 1996 and M.A. in Political Science from Dr C. V. Raman University Bilaspur CG in 1998.

Career
Neeraj Gupta is having more than 22 years of experience in Research & Media, Cartooning, Creative Direction & Marketing.

He started his career as a Cartoonist at Daily Nava Bharat Newspaper in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh in 1995; in 1998, he joined Nava Bharat Newspaper in Mumbai as Cartoonist; in 2000, he joined Na Bharat newspaper in Bhopal as a Senior Graphics Designer. In 2002, he started working with Rediff.com, Mumbai as a Cartoon columnist. In 2004, he started working with “Dainik Jagran” as a Cartoonist and Infographics Designer and also works with “Channel 7 (IBN 7)” as an Illustrator and Infographics Designer.

In 2006, Neeraj joined Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd. as a Creative consultant.

His exhibition ‘Sansad Par Hamla’ in 2006 at All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society Delhi was a hit. After that, he has done many other exhibitions on the subject of Social and Public awareness across the country.

From 2018 to 2020 he did multiple graphic design projects. In 2020, Neeraj and Rohit Saxena launched Parliamentarybusiness.com, a platform that provides comprehensive information on MPs, their performance and the productivity of the Parliament.

Philanthropy
He is also associated with an NGO Mass for Awareness, under this he launched a campaign 'Vote for India' in 2013, the campaign is for creating awareness of voting rights in India and was supported by the Election Commission of India. In the campaign, he launched a mascot named "Mr Votu". It was the first Indian Mascot, that got support from millions of people, for this campaign "Mr Votu" registered in the Limca Book of Records in 2013.

Articles
Rahul didn’t ask any questions in the 16th Lok Sabha – outlookinida.com and the quint.com