Tejasvi Surya is an Indian politician who became a member of Lok Sabha from Bangalore South constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Wiki/Biography
Tejasvi Surya was born on 16 November 1990 in Chikkamagaluru district of Karnataka (33 years old as of 2023). His zodiac sign is Scorpio. He received his education at Srikumaran Children’s Home. He went to Bangalore Institute of Law to pursue his LLB degree.
appearance
Height: 5′9″
Weight: 70kg
Body Measurements: Chest 40″, Waist 32″, Biceps 13″
Eye color: black
Hair color: black
Family, caste and girlfriends
Tejasvi Surya belongs to a Brahmin family. His father’s name was Suryanarayana and his mother’s name was Rama.
Profession
Tejasvi Surya is a lawyer-turned-politician. He is a practicing Advocate of the High Court of Karnataka. He works as a lawyer at a Bangalore-based law firm called Haranahalli Law Partners. He served as secretary of ABVP (Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad) until 2016. Later, in 2016, he became the general secretary of the Karnataka unit of BJYM (Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha), the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
He contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Bengaluru South constituency and won by 7,39,229 votes. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, he won by a margin of 2,77,083 votes, retaining the Bengaluru South seat.
dispute
- In 2014, he tweeted that the agenda of the Modi government was encouraging, besides reservation for women in Parliament. Fear of the day when female reservation becomes a reality. His tweets have led to him being labeled a “misogynist”.
Tejasvi Surya’s tweets on women reservation
- In 2017, Tejasvi was one of the organizers of the controversial ‘Mangalore Chalo’ rally. The rally was organized to protest against the killing of an RSS member in Dakshina Kannada district and showed scenes of BJP workers from the other side of Karnataka on their way to Mangaluru on bicycles.
- In 2019, he tweeted that the 2019 Lok Sabha elections were a test of common man’s patriotism and that those who voted for Narendra Modi would be “nationalists” and those who did not vote would be “anti-nationalist”.
Tejasvi Surya’s tweets about being Indian or anti-Indian
- He has said that the ideologies of India’s two mainstream left-wing parties, the Communist Party of India (M) and the Communist Party of India, are anti-nationalist.
- In 2019, a woman tweeted against Tejasvi, saying she had suffered because of him. She called Tejasvi a “lecher”, “abuser” and a “woman beater”; questioning the BJP’s choice to give him a ticket.
- He has repeatedly said in speeches and tweets that Congress is a “party of Muslims” and a “party of jihad.”
Favorites
- Food: Pani Puri, Idli Sambhar, Vada Pav
- TV Shows: “Mr. Bean,” “Prison Break,” “How I Met Your Mother”
- Subjects: Law, Politics, History, Hindu Culture, Economics,
- Sports: Cricket, Football
- Musicians: Mahesh Raghavan, Vidya Rangarajan
- Authors: Sidney Sheldon, Jeffrey Archer, Swami Vivekanand, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Robin Sharma
fact
- Tejasvi Surya is the Founder and President of ‘Arise India’, a non-partisan, not-for-profit registered trust that develops youth across countries to become future leaders.
- From 2013 to 2014, he worked at India Facts as a columnist.
- In 2017, he was selected by the British High Commission to participate in the UK Youth Leadership Programme.
- He co-founded the Center for Entrepreneurship Excellence, an organization that runs programs related to education and entrepreneurship.
- Tejaswin considers the late Ananth Kumar and his wife Tejaswini as his political mentors, who were tailor-made for him right from his student days.
Tejasvi Surya and Ananth Kumar
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education