Tejasvi Surya is an Indian politician, who became a Member of the Lok Sabha from the Bangalore South Constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.
Wiki/Biography
Tejasvi Surya was born on 16 November 1990 (age 28 years; as in 2018) in the Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka. His zodiac sign is Scorpio. He did his schooling from Sri Kumaran Children Home. He went to Bangalore Institute of Legal Studies to pursue his bachelor’s degree in Law.
Physical Appearance
Height: 5′ 9″
Weight: 70 kg
Body Measurement: Chest 40″, Waist 32″, Biceps 13″
Eye Colour: Black
Hair Colour: Black
Family, Caste & Girlfriend
Tejasvi Surya belongs to a Brahmin family. His father’s name is Suryanarayana and his mother’s name is Rama.
Career
Tejasvi Surya is a lawyer-turned-politician. He is a practising lawyer in the Karnataka High Court. He is working as an associate in a law firm named Haranahalli Law Partners in Bangalore. He was the secretary of ABVP (Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad) until 2016. He then became the general secretary of the Karnataka unit of BJYM (Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha), the youth wing of BJP, in 2016.
He contested the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections from the Bangalore South Constituency and won by 7,39,229 votes.
Controversies
- In 2014, he tweeted that with the exception of women’s reservation in parliament, Modi government agenda is inspiring. Dread the day when women reservation become reality. His tweet made him be tagged as ‘Misogynistic.’
Tejasvi Surya’s Tweet On Women Reservation
- In 2017, Tejasvi was one of the organizers of the controversial ‘Mangalore Chalo’ rally. The rally was organised in protest of the killing of an RSS member in Dakshina Kannada district and showcased the BJP worker from across the Karnataka riding on their bikes to Mangaluru.
- In 2019, he tweeted that the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections were the test of common man’s patriotism and those who would vote for Narendra Modi would be ‘nationalist’ and those who won’t would be ‘anti-nationalist.’
Tejasvi Surya’s Tweet About Being An Indian Or Anti-Indian
- He once said that the ideology of the 2 mainstream left parties in India, i.e., CPI (M) and CPI was anti-nationalist.
- In 2019, a woman tweeted against Tejasvi that she had suffered because of Tejasvi. She called Tejasvi as ‘Womaniser,’ ‘abuser,’ and ‘woman beater;’ questioning the choice of BJP for giving him a ticket to fight in elections.
- He, in his speeches and tweets, has made several remarks about Congress being the ‘party of Muslims’ and ‘Jihadi Party.’
Favourite Things
- Food: Pani Puri, Idli Sambhar, Vada Pav
- TV Shows: Mr Bean, Prison Break, How I Met Your Mother
- Subject: Law, Politics, History, Hindu Culture, Economics,
- Sports: Cricket, Football
- Musician: Mahesh Raghvan, Vidya Rangarajan
- Authors: Sidney Sheldon, Jeffrey Archer, Swami Vivekanand, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Robin Sharma
Facts
- Tejasvi Surya is the founder and President of ‘Arise India,’ a non-partisan, not-for-profit, registered trust that tailors the youth of nations to become leaders in the future.
- He has worked with India Facts as a columnist from 2013 to 2014.
- He was selected by the British High Commission to participate in a young leadership programme in the United Kingdom in 2017.
- He has co-founded the ‘Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence,’ an organisation that runs projects related to education and entrepreneurship.
- Tejasvi considers the late Ananth Kumar and his wife Tejaswini as his political mentors, who have tailored him from his school days.
Tejasvi Surya With Ananth Kumar
Categories: Biography
Source: SCHOOL TRANG DAI
