Ranjan Bhattacharya
Ranjan Bhattacharya was a businessman and bureaucrat best known for being the adopted son-in-law of former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. His relationship with AB Vajpayee has been in the news in the past. Check out Ranjan Bhattacharya Wiki, age, height, weight, girlfriend, wife, caste, religion, family, biography and more.
Biography/Wiki
Ranjan is a businessman and bureaucrat with a strong background and political roots. He is known as “Ranjan Da” by his famous people. On December 28, 1959, he was born into a healthy family of doctors. He was born in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India, but hails from Patna, India. By caste, he is a Bengali Brahmin Hindu.
appearance
Ranjan is about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs about 70 kg. He has black eyes and black hair.
Ranjan Bhattacharya
family, girlfriend and wife
Both his father and mother are doctors. In 1976, while in college, he fell in love with Namita Bhattacharya (adopted daughter of Atal Bihari Vajpayee) and won the heart of Atal Ji. He married Namita in 1983 for seven years.
Ranjan Bhattacharya and wife Namita Bhattacharya
The couple gave birth to a baby girl and named her Niharika Bhattacharya.
Ranjan Bhattacharya and his daughter
He lost his parents at a very young age, so when he met Atal Ji, he became his father. He started calling him “Baapji” as Namita did. He was devastated when his adoptive father Atal Bihari Vajpayee passed away on August 16, 2018, at AIIMS Hospital in Delhi.
Ranjan Bhattacharya with wife Namita Bhattacharya and Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Profession
He attended St. Edward’s School in Shimla, St. Columb’s School in Delhi and St. Michael’s High School in Patna. He subsequently attended Shri Ram College of Commerce in Delhi and received an honors degree in economics in 1979. He also completed a diploma course in hotel management from the Oberoi Institute of Hotel Management in 1981.
At the age of 24, he started working with the Oberoi Group and became the General Manager of the Oberoi Palace Hotel in Srinagar. In 1987, he quit his job at Oberoi’s to become an entrepreneur. He opened his own hotel in Manali under the banner of Orchid Resorts Private Limited. In 1993, he sold his hotel to Raj Chopra (Chairman and Managing Director of Competent Automobiles).
In 1996, just 13 days after Atal Ji took office as Prime Minister, Ranjan was appointed as OSD (Official on Special Duty) in the Prime Minister’s Office. This became a life-changing event, after which Ranjan became prominent in politics.
dispute
In 2012, Arvind Kejriwal’s team attacked Ranjan and called him ‘Sarkari Damad’. They claim that the nexus between industrialists and politicians is the main cause of inflation (increased prices) in India. They played audio recordings of conversations between Ranjan and lobbyist Neela Radia.
fact
- Cuban cigars, red wine and long drives have always been Ranjan’s weakness.
Ranjan Bhattacharya smokes and drinks
- He said in an interview, “In the beginning, Atal ji would forget my name every time he saw me and would call me Banerjee, Mukherjee and even Bengali Babu in different ways.” .
- In 1997, he founded a company that provides reservation services for most American brands – Talent of Carlson Hospitality Worldwide Marketing in the United States, and named it Talent Marketing.
- Ranjan did not get any official seat during Atal ji’s tenure from 1999 to 2004 but was known as a shaker and mover in Delhi’s business and political circles. Since Atal Ji’s ouster, he has remained in the shadows of media and controversy and disappeared from the spotlight.
Ranjan Bhattacharya
- Ranjan was instrumental behind multi-million dollar NHAI (National Highways Authority of India) contracts awarded to Malaysian companies.
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