Month on, another Adani Group nominee quits NDTV board

New Delhi, April 9

Adani Group’s corporate brand custodian and head of corporate affairs Aman Kumar Singh, who is facing a corruption charge in Chhattisgarh, has resigned from the board of NDTV Ltd due to “other preoccupations”.

A former Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, Aman Kumar is the second nominee of the Adani Group to have resigned from the NDTV board. On March 9, another former bureaucrat, Sunil Kumar, had resigned as an additional non-executive independent director of the company.

Sunil Kumar, a 1979-batch IAS officer, was the Chhattisgarh Chief Secretary from 2012 to 2014 during the BJP regime, as was Aman Kumar, who remained Principal Secretary to the then BJP CM Raman Singh. Aman Kumar quit the IRS in November 2022 and joined the Adani Group. After the Adani takeover of NDTV, he was named a director on its board. Chhattisgarh is a state where the Adani Group has substantial interests in coal mines, some of which were facing opposition from tribals. He is also facing a probe along with his wife from the Chhattisgarh Police in a disproportionate assets case.