Tejasvi Surya

Lakya Suryanarayana Tejasvi Surya (born 16 November 1990) is an Indian politician. RSS swayamsevak and lawyer, Member of Parliament from the Bharatiya Janata Party, representing the Bangalore South seat in the 17th Lok Sabha. Since September 26, 2020, he has also served as the president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha.

Early and personal life

Lakya Suryanarayana Tejasvi Surya was born on 16 November 1990 into a political family in Bangalore, Karnataka. His father, L. A. Suryanarayana, is a former Joint Commissioner of Excise, and his uncle, L. A. Ravi Subramanya, is a three-time MLA from Basavanagudi constituency. Rama is the name of his mother. Surya sold his paintings at the age of nine and donated the proceeds to the Army’s Kargil fund while attending St. Paul’s High School, Belgaum in Belgaum. In 2001, while studying at Sri Kumaran Children’s Home in Thyagarajanagar, he was granted the National Balashree Honour for Creative Scientific Innovation. He then earned a Bachelor of Academic Law and an LLB from the Bangalore Institute of Legal Studies. Surya is trained in Carnatic music and runs Arise India, an NGO that works in the field of school education. He has previously contributed to IndiaFacts.

Political career

Early years

Surya was a member of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). He strongly supported the Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign for the 2014 Indian general election, and he helped coordinate the BJP’s ‘Mangalore Chalo’ rally in 2017. During the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, he oversaw the Karnataka BJP’s Digital Communications Team. As a lawyer, he represented numerous BJP figures, including Mahesh Hegde (editor of Post-Card News), Pratap Simha (MP from Mysore), and assisted lawyer Ashok Haranhalli in defending B.S. Yeddyurappa’s corruption cases. R. Ashoka and V. Somanna have mentored him, and his uncle, Ravi Subramanya, is a senior BJP leader and MLA from Basavanagudi.

17th Lok Sabha

Former minister Ananth Kumar represented  Bangalore South (Lok Sabha constituency) from 1996 until his death in 2018. Due to his previous work, Tejasvi Surya was chosen to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from this constituency over Kumar’s wife, Tejaswini Ananth Kumar. While she got the backing of BJP Karnataka state president B.S. Yeddyurappa at first, senior BJP and RSS leader B.L. He won the elections by defeating B. K. Hariprasad of the Congress by 331,192 votes, making him the BJP’s youngest MP after taking office at the age of 28 years, 6 months, and 7 days.

Surya took his oath as a Kannada MP on June 17, 2019. In June 2019, he asked the national government to reverse its 2014 decision to eliminate the requirement of knowledge of the local language in bank recruiting. Surya requested that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) be extended to Karnataka at the Zero Hour on July 10, 2019, citing the increased influx of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in his state. When a holy site in Hampi was vandalised, Surya brought it up in Parliament, pressing the government to improve security for the country’s hallowed landmarks.

Surya stated his fear for the Mayor of the city in October 2019. He encouraged Karnataka’s Chief Minister to write and enact the Nava Bengaluru Act, which would replace the Karnataka Municipalities Act of 1975. Surya responded to the rubbish situation in Bangalore by saying that . He then argued that he lacked the authority to resolve the issue. The people reacted negatively to this response. Surya formed a Bangalore South coronavirus task force during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, which included free home delivery of vital commodities, emergency medical aid, and mobile COVID-19 testing kiosks

External links

Tejasvi Surya at Instagram

Tejasvi Surya at Twitter