Manish Kashyap

Some Lesser Known Facts About Manish Kashyap

• Manish Kashyap is an Indian journalist from Bihar, who runs a new channel on YouTube by the name Sach Tak News. He reports on the various problems faced by the local people of Bihar and poor government facilities in the education and health sector. He was accused of fake reporting about migrant workers of Bihar being beaten in Tamil Nadu in February 2023.

• Manish Kashyap decided to become a journalist when a government official asked him for a bribe for re-issuing his driving licence. He revealed in an interview that he lost his driving licence, and when he went to get it re-issued, he faced the problem of corruption which inspired him to become a journalist.

• He launched his news channel Sach Tak News on YouTube and started making videos on the problems faced by the local public of Bihar in schools, universities, and hospitals. He also raised several other issues like casteist issues, poverty, and unemployment.

• He conducted many interviews with celebrities and politicians like Bhojpuri actress Akshara Singh, Alakh Pandey of Physics Wallah coaching academy, former minister of Bihar state government Mukesh Sahani, and Lalu Prasad Yadav‘s son and Environment, Forest & Climate Change minister in the Bihar state government, Tej Pratap Yadav.

• He contested the Bihar Assembly elections in 2020 as an independent candidate from the Chanpatia seat in West Champaran and came third by securing 9239 votes, which were 5.26% votes of the total casted votes. His symbol in the election was a farmer riding tractor. ^[27]MyNeta ^[28]Election Commission of India

• His channel Er Manish Kashyap had more than 1 million subscribers, and his news channel Sach Tak News had more than 6 million subscribers in March 2023.

• He has spoken as a guest speaker at functions of many social groups and universities including Ganga Bachao Trust, KIIT – Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, and KISS – Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Odisha.

• He likes to do various adventure activities like underwater diving.