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Place of Birth: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India
About M. V. Nikesh Kumar
- MV Nikesh Kumar is a media personality from Kerala, India.
- He is the Managing Director of Reporter TV, a Malayalam news channel.
- He has also contested elections in Kerala for Communist Party of India (Marxist). He holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Mar Ivanios College Trivandrum.
- He started his career as a news reporter in Asianet, later moved onto Indiavision, anchoring various programs based on contemporary social and political issues.
- He anchored Newsnight every day at 09.00 pm. At REPORTER, he anchored Kerala's most viewed daily 9 PM show 'Editor's Hour', political discussion show which discuss the politics that affects the state.
- He also anchored the weekly interview programme "Close Encounter", in which he interviews the socio-political leaders of Kerala, a hard core debate.
- Nikesh Kumar decided to contest in upcoming Kerala Legislative assembly as CPI(M) candidate from Azhikkode Assembly Constituency in Kannur district of Kerala.
- M.V Nikesh Kumar said he is entering electoral arena after quitting journalism.
- He returned to journalism after a hiatus of 1 year and is now anchoring "MV Nikesh Kumar Show". Nikesh Kumar is the youngest son of the late CMP leader and former minister M.
- V.
- Raghavan.
- Nikesh Kumar moved away from Journalism to Politics and decided to contest for LDF from Azhikode constituency in Kerala.
- In the 2016 Kerala Assembly Elections he contested against KM Shaji of Indian Union Muslim League.
- However, M.V.
- Nikesh Kumar lost in that elections by a margin of 2284.
- He is married to Rani and has two children - Sankaran and Janaki.
- He was honoured with Ramnath Goenka award for excellence in journalism by President of India.
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