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Tejaswini Ananth Kumar
Tejaswini Ananth Kumar (born Tejaswini Oak; 11 March 1966) is an Indian politician and social worker. Kumar is the Chairman and co-founder of Adamya Chetana Foundation, and the Karnataka state Vice-President for BJP. Early life She was very active at all levels of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) organizing various student activities. She served as State Joint Secretary & National executive member of ABVP. Between 1988 and 1993, she worked as a Software Engineer in Bengaluru, Lecturer at BMS college of Engineering and Lecturer at SDM college of Engineering. She worked as a scientist at ADA (then headed by Dr APJ Abdul Kalam) between 1993 – 1997 and on the LCA – Tejas project. Social work She along with her husband, Ananth Kumar, founded Adamya Chetana Foundation, a nonprofit organisation for social service. It was setup in 1998 in memory of Girija Shastry, mother of Ananth Kumar. It supports underprivileged children with food in schools through the mid-day meals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka
The Bharatiya Janata Party, or simply, BJP Karnataka (BJP; ; ), is the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party of the Karnataka. Its head office is situated at the BJP Bhavan, 11th Cross, Temple Street, Malleshwaram, Bengaluru. The current president of BJP Karnataka is Nalin Kumar Kateel. It is the current ruling party of Karnataka. Till date 4 chief ministers from the party have served the state Electoral history BJP contested 110 seats in the January 1983 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, winning 18 seats and obtained 7.9% of the votes cast across the state. Out of its 110 candidates, 71 lost their deposits. Along with the Andhra Pradesh legislative election there same year, this marked the first major performance of the party in southern India. Nine out of the 18 BJP legislators came from the coastal districts. The influence of BJP in Karnataka was marked by its inability to mobilize support in rural areas, where the Janata Dal leader Ramakrishna Hegde and Abdul Naz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
