Two-time MP from Telangana’s Karimnagar, Bandi Sanjay Kumar (52) is ready to be inducted as a Union minister on Sunday, when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA authorities’s council of ministers take oath.
The firebrand BJP chief, who was the president of the occasion’s Telangana unit from Could 2020 to July 2023, has been elected as an MP in each 2019 and this yr.
The BJP Nationwide Common Secretary has been generally known as a staunch critic of the earlier Bharat Rashtra Samiti authorities and former chief minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao, in addition to the present A Revanth Reddy-led Congress authorities within the state.
Having began out as an RSS volunteer in his early years, Kumar is broadly credited for increasing the BJP’s footprint in Telangana. His aggressive stance was on show through the Better Hyderabad Municipal Company (GHMC) elections in December 2020, during which the BJP sprang a shock and gained 48 of 150 seats. Beneath his management, the occasion additionally gained two essential Meeting bypolls – within the Huzurabad and Dubbaka seats.
Kumar had additionally contested the 2014, 2018, and 2023 Meeting elections, however misplaced.
Throughout his pupil days, he was a pacesetter of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), and was appointed the organisation’s Karimnagar president. Rising by means of the ranks, he grew to become the ABVP’s nationwide secretary, and in 1996, he accompanied BJP chief L Okay Advani for a number of days through the latter’s Rath Yatra. He was additionally the Karimnagar municipal corporator twice and has been identified for his pro-Hindutva speeches.
To protest towards what he known as the “BRS authorities’s failures”, Kumar had in 2021 launched a statewide Praja Sangram Yatra. In 5 phases, he coated almost 60 Meeting constituencies, strolling over 1,500 km in 120 days.
After successful from the Karimnagar Lok Sabha seat in 2019, he was appointed as a member of the Parliamentary Committee on OBC welfare, Parliamentary Committee on City Growth in 2019, the Tobacco Board, and the Minority Affairs State Degree Committee.