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Santosh Bhartiya is an eminent Journalist credited for revolutionizing the nature and approach of present day television scenario in India, especially election coverage, by making it people-centric from leader and political party-centric.

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 * Santosh Bhartiya started his journalistic career as Special Correspondent in Hindi weekly RAVIVAR, a prestigious & popular publication of Anand Bazar Patrika. Santosh Bhartiya did the first ever interview of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi and wrote about the Phoolan & Vikram Mallah. After that he joined The Telegraph, an esteemed English daily of the same group. Santosh Bhartiya became one of the first TV journalists of India when he joined DOORDARSHAN for the first news and current affairs program, News Line. he   became Chief Editor of CHAUTHI DUNIYA, the first Sunday newspaper in the history of Hindi journalism, which not only set a milestone in Indian journalism but was also considered as a trendsetter in the field of Hindi Journalism. He also became the member of PRESS COUNCIL OF INDIA. Mr. Bhartiya started a news agency HEADLINE WORLD. This news agency had the membership of all the non-metro newspapers of India. He also worked as Consulting Editor of H.I.F.E, the news and feature agency, which represents about 3000 newspapers of the country. It was his idea of directly involving the voter and common people, which he implemented during the assembly election of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Delhi & Chattisgarh in the year 2003. This pioneer endeavor of Mr. Bhartiya compelled all the other TV channels to follow suit during the Lok Sabha Election of 2004.

Book

 * [http://www.amazon.com/Santosh-Bhartiya/e/B00JQBROS0 Patrakarita : Naye Daur, Naye Pratiman (Media )
 * Nishane Par (Poems )
 * Dalit And Minority Empowerment (Autobiography/Biography))

Political Career

 * Santosh Bhartiya was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha of Indian Parliament in 1989 from the Farrukhabad Constituency of Uttar Pradesh and became the Member of Parliament. His sojourn with politics was for a short span of time and he again returned back to his old calling journalism.