Mrityunjay Sharma is a first-generation politician, entrepreneur and author of a current bestseller, ‘Broken Promises: Caste, Crime and Politics in Bihar’. An engineering graduate from BIT Mesra, Ranchi and an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, Mrityunjay worked in various senior HR roles at Asian Paints before moving to the hinterlands of Chhattisgarh, where he worked with the then-chief minister Dr Raman Singh on developmental issues. He subsequently moved to his home state of Jharkhand to join politics and work at the grassroots. He is currently the Convener - Election Management for BJP Jharkhand. Sharma is the co-founder of Ranchi-based start-up, biofie. He also runs a social initiative called Kartavyapath to teach mathematics to underprivileged children and is a visiting faculty at several institutes, including the IIMs.
