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Place of Birth: Gadag-Betageri, Karnataka, India
About Vijay Sankeshwar
- Vijay Sankeshwar (born 2 August 1950) is an Indian businessman.
- He along with Anand Sankeshwar (Managing Director) is the chairman of India's largest logistics firm VRL Group.
- He is also known for being the owner of the largest fleet of commercial vehicles in India.He left BJP and founded the Kannada Nadu Party.
- Later he joined the Karnataka Janata Paksha of BJP outcast Yeddyurappa; the party eventually merged back with BJP.
- Sankeshwar was also a former Member of Parliament from North Dharwad constituency as a BJP member. Sankeshwar previously owned Karnataka's largest circulating newspaper, Vijaya Karnataka, until it was sold to Bennett, Coleman and Co.
- Ltd.
- (The Times Group) for an undisclosed sum in 2007.
- After the expiry of a five-year non-compete clause he launched Vijaya Vani in 2012.
- Vijaya Vani is now the #1 Kannada daily newspaper, with 8 lakh+ sold copies every day.Sankeshwar launched a new Kannada channel, Digvijay 24X7, on April 4, 2017.
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