Immediate Past President

Mahendra Mohan Gupta

CMD & Managing Editor, Jagran Prakashan Ltd

Ex. MP, Rajya Sabha

A freethinking intellectual, Mahendra Mohan Gupta began his career working with his father in 1954. Other than being a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, he has also held a number of important positions outside the Jagran Group. He was the Chairman of UNI, President of INS, President of the Indian languages Newspaper Association and has held several other important positions. For excellence in Hindi Journalism, he was honoured with the Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award by the All India National Unity Conference. With over 50 years experience Mahendra Mohan Gupta, as he is popularly known, is one of the leading media thinkers of our times. Under his able stewardship, Jagran Prakashan Ltd went public . Also, under his leadership, the group expanded from one newspaper Dainik Jagran to multiple media products making it one of the largest media conglomerates in the country today.

Under his leadership, as the group moves forward, the underlying objective is to expand presence across a range a media platforms, evolve the traditional media business, develop newer media businesses, and leverage synergies for overall growth. His vision for the group is to ensure that we are present across every consumer media touchpoint and deliver value to every life we touch.

His involvement in Trade and other associations:

Director, Press Trust of India, New Delhi

President, Merchant's Chamber of UP, Kanpur

Director, Indian Newspaper Society, New Delhi

Member of Council (1982-92) Audit Bureau of Circulations, Mumbai

President (1987-88), Indian Languages Newspaper Association, Mumbai

President (1989-90), Indian Newspaper Society, New Delhi)

Member (1985-91), Press Council of India, New Delhi

Chairman(2002-04), United News of India, New Delhi

Founder Secretary, Sri Puran Chandra Gupta Smarak Trust, Kanpur (Running Puran Chandra Vidya Niketan, C.B.S.E. approved Public School at Kanpur, Jagran Institute of Management and Mass Communication, Noida, Jagran Institute of Mass Communication, Kanpur, Jagran College of Art Science and Commerce, Kanpur and Jagran Public School Noida & Lucknow).

Member, Regional Direct Taxes Advisory Committee, Kanpur (Ministry of Finance, Govt Of India)

Chairman, Multiple Council, Lions Clubs International comprising U.P., Delhi, Punjab, Haryana & Jammu - Kashmir

District Governor, Lions District 321-B (1978-79) comprising U.P. districts

President , Shri Ramlila Society

President, Parade Kanpur 131 years old institution

Patron, Indian Academy of Management Sciences, Mirzapur

Patron, U.P.Veterans Cricket Association, Kanpur

Patron, Kanpur Rotary Kidney Foundation

Awards & Recognitions »

Melvin Jones Fellow Lions Clubs International, Illinois (U.S.A.)

Life Time Achievement Award 2012

Awarded highest honour of "Ambassador of Goodwill" by Lions Clubs International in 2005

Honoured by various social and professional organisation for outstanding services rendered to society for upliftment of people at large.