Ananth Kumar

Introduction :

Ananth Kumar is 65 years old Loksabha MP, elected from Bangalore South of Karnataka state as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party Party. Ananth Kumar was born to Shri H.N. Narayana Sastry & Smt. Girija N. Sastry and is married to Smt. Tejaswini A.. He/She has 2 daughter(s)

Background information of Ananth Kumar:

A law graduate, Kumar made his foray into politics at the age of 16 in 1975 when he joined the JP movement against the Emergency and was jailed. Active in the student movement, he was general secretary of the State unit of the ABVP and was nominated as the State convenor of the Save Assam Movement in 1982. In 1985, he became the national secretary of the ABVP, from where he graduated directly into the BJP.

More information

Participated in J.P. Movement against Emergency Rule in India, 1975-77

detained for about 40 days

Founder President, Aerospace Museum Society, Bangalore, April, 1999

State Convenor, (i) Save Assam Movement, Karnataka, 1983

(ii) International Youth Year, 1985

and (iii) R.S.S. sponsored Drought Relief Committee, Karnataka, 1986

Organiser, State and national level conferences and study camps

Convenor for many state and university level agitations

Member, (i) Central Silk Board, 1996-97

(ii) Governing Council, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1996-98 and 2004-09

(iii) Infrastructure Task Force, November 1988

(iv) Indian Parliamentary Delegation to UNESCO

(v) Indian Parliamentary Delegation to China

(vi) Press Council of India, 16 June, 2010 onwards

and (vi) Indian-Portugal Parliamentary Friendship Group, 29 July, 2010 onwards

Vice-President, The Council Of World Affairs, 7 May, 2010 onwards