Anil Antony is an Indian technology entrepreneur and politician, and a former member of the Indian National Congress (INC). He has served as Digital Media Convener, Kerala Congress Committee (KPCC) and National Coordinator, Social Media and Digital Communications Group, All India Congress Committee (AICC). He is the son of Indian politician and Congress Party member AK Antony, who served as the 23rd Defense Minister of India. On January 25, 2023, Anil drew criticism from party members for a tweet objecting to the screening of a BBC documentary on the 2002 riots in the Indian state of Gujarat: The Modi Question, which cast a shadow on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A good influence, and he subsequently resigned from Congress. .
Wiki/Biography
Anil Kurien Antony was born on Tuesday, December 17, 1985 (age 37 years as of 2022) and hails from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Childhood photos of Anil K Antony (right) and politician Chandy Oommen (left)
He pursued Bachelor of Technology in Industrial Engineering from College of Engineering (CET), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (2003-2007). From 2007 to 2009, he studied for a Master of Science degree at Stanford University in California, USA. He played tennis and basketball in college.
Anil K Antony at Stanford University commencement ceremony (2009)
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′6″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Anil Anthony was born into a Christian family in Syria, and his father claimed to be an atheist. AK Anthony.
Parents and siblings
Anil Antony’s father, AK Antony, is an Indian politician, member of the Congress Party, and served as the 23rd Defense Minister of India. His mother Elizabeth Antony is a lawyer in the Kerala High Court. Earlier, she was an official with Canara Bank. She is also the founder of the Naverson Charitable Foundation. Anil has a younger brother Ajith Paul Antony who is an actor. He made his starring debut in the multilingual crime film Oberoi (2014).
Anil Anthony and his family
wife and children
He is unmarried.
Profession
science and technology
In 2005, he co-founded the now-defunct Torque Technology Solutions, a mobile value-added services provider in Thiruvananthapuram. Thereafter, he moved to the United States and joined Cisco in June 2008 as a product marketing intern in San Jose, California; he worked there for three months. From June 2009 to November 2010, he worked as a marketing manager at Beceem Communications. In November 2010, he joined Alphavista Services Inc as Vice President of Business Development, where he served until September 2011. He later returned to India and joined Grant Thornton LLP as a business consultant in New Delhi. He also serves as a consultant to Casper Laboratories in California. He was a director of the now-defunct Sqanda Capital Investments Private Limited and Helius Education Private Limited. He became a director of Helius Education in 2011 and Sqanda Capital Investments in 2013. In May 2015, he became the founding director of Pythia Data Private Limited. He has previously worked with 2 companies: Swarna Milk Foundation and Transglobal International Private Limited. In 2022, he became a member of the Advisory Board of the Ernest and Julio Gallo School of Management in California.
politics
In 2019, he started to get involved in politics after joining INC. He was appointed as KPCC Digital Media Convenor ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In 2020, he also became the National Coordinator of the AICC’s Social Media and Digital Communications Group. He manages the Kerala unit of the digital communications company.
Anil Antony (right) pictured during the 2021 Kerala Legislative Assembly elections
Resign from the company
On January 24, 2023, Anil Antony tweeted against the screening of India: The Modi Question, a controversial documentary about the 2002 Gujarat riots, for imposing the BBC’s views on India Institutions will harm India’s sovereignty. This two-part BBC documentary shows the bad side of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The documentary was criticized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which called it a “propaganda film that lacks objectivity and reflects a colonial mentality.” The central government’s move has been sharply criticized by opposition parties such as the Congress and TMC for implementing censorship. The documentary was scheduled to be screened at the Congress regional headquarters on Republic Day 2023, as the country has not announced a ban on the documentary. Anil’s tweet read:
Despite the deep differences with the BJP, I think those (Indian) people compare the BBC, a state-funded channel with a long history of (so-called Indian) bias, to Jack Straw (Iraq) Placing the views of those behind the war over (Indian) institutions is setting a dangerous precedent that will undermine our sovereignty.”
Anil has since been slammed by party members for his comments, which were seen as support for the BJP, and he also received threatening calls to withdraw the tweet, which he refused to do. The next day, Anil resigned from the Congress party and shared a copy of his resignation letter on Twitter, which read:
I have resigned from @incindia @INCKerala. Those fighting for free speech are intolerant in calling for a tweet to be retracted. I refused. @facebook wall of hate/abuse, started by people who support the long journey to promote love! Your name is hypocrisy! life goes on. The following is an edited version of the resignation letter. “
I have resigned @incindia @INC keralaThose fighting for free speech were intolerant in calling for the tweet to be retracted. I refused. @Facebook Support the Hike to Promote Walls of Hate/Abuse by Loved Ones! Your name is hypocrisy! life goes on. The following is an edited version of the resignation letter. pic.twitter.com/0i8QpNIoXW
— Anil K. Anthony (@anilkantony) January 25, 2023
Join the Bharatiya Janata Party
He joined the BJP on April 6, 2023, in the presence of BJP leaders Piyush Goyal and V Muurlidharan and the party’s Kerala unit chief K Surendran. After joining the BJP, Mr Antony said:
Every congressional staffer believes they are working for families. But I believe I am working for the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a very clear vision to make India a leader in a multipolar world. “
Anil Antony joins BJP in April 2023
Favorites
- Cuisine: Mediterranean, Japanese, South Indian
- Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Facts/Trivia
- In an interview, he revealed that he accepted the Congressional appointment as KPCC Digital Media Convenor proposed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. Apparently, Anil is an admirer of Shashi Tharoor.
Anil Antony and Shashi Tharoor
- In 2012, he became vice president of the Navotan Foundation, an NGO founded by his mother. At Navatan Foundation, Anil conducts mobile cancer detection and screening camps and general health camps in various rural and poor areas of India, provides vocational training to poor women, and organizes legal aid and legal awareness camps.
Anil Antony joins Shashi Tharoor and Priya Dutt in distributing school supplies to children of fishing communities hit by floods in Kerala in 2018
- In April 2020, he co-founded the social organization MPs and Indian Innovators (PII), an action group to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. For this initiative, he was awarded the Rajiv Gandhi National COVID-19 Warrior Excellence Award in 2021.
- He is a member of the Net Zero Fellowship Program at the School of Policy and Governance, New Delhi. The program provides a deeper understanding of India’s stance and plans to address climate change.
Anil Antony receives certificate from the Policy School for his participation in the 2022 Net Zero Fellowship Scheme
- He writes regularly for various national newspapers such as The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Vanguard, BW BusinessWorld, National Herald, The Weekly, The Print ”, The Sunday Guardian, Veekshanam, Kerala Kaumudi, Malayala Manorama and Mathrubhumi.
- He is actively involved in several international youth leadership and multi-track dialogues and projects, including the EU Visitor Program (EUVP2021) (hosted by the European Parliament and the European Commission), the Australia-India Youth Dialogue 2020 (AIYD2020) and the India-Germany Youth Leaders Forum ( IGYLF2019). He was also selected as a JENESYS “Future Global Leader” (2017) by the Japanese government (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Japan International Cooperation Agency). Among other things, he is involved in the multi-track security and foreign policy dialogue between Germany and Israel (2022).
Anil Antony joins the EU Visitor Program (EUVP)
- As a fitness enthusiast, he regularly practices yoga and works out at the gym.
Anil Anthony performs yoga
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Source: HIS Education