Who is Ashok Malik ?

Appointment of senior journalist and columnist Ashok Malik  as the new Press Adviser.  to the new President Ram Nath Kovind  has surprised  many in the bureaucratic circles. Infact, Malik is Padamshri who  contributes regularly in various newspapers and periodicals and currently a Distinguished Fellow at the premier think-tank Observer Research Foundation. Malik has been associated with the media campaign of the BJP during the last 2014 Lok Sabha elections.