Tejasvi Surya

Lakya Suryanarayana Tejasvi is an Indian politician, RSS swayamsevak and lawyer at the Karnataka High Court. He is the Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party, representing the Bangalore South constituency. Surya considers B. R. Ambedkar as an inspiration since childhood.

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Summary Tejasvi SuryaLakya Suryanarayana Tejasvi is an Indian politician, RSS swayamsevak and lawyer at the Karnataka High Court. He is the Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party, representing the Bangalore South constituency. Surya considers B. R. Ambedkar as an inspiration since childhood. He has been mentored by R. Ashoka and V. Somanna, while his uncle, Ravi Subramanya, is a senior leader of the BJP and an MLA representing Basavanagudi. He won the elections by defeating B.

K. Hariprasad of Congress by 3,31,192 votes, making him the youngest MP to represent the BJP, after having assumed office at the age of 28 years, 6 months, 7 days. He was awarded the National Balashree Honour in 2001 while studying at Sri Kumaran Children’s Home, Thyagarajanagar. He later graduated from Bangalore Institute of Legal Studies with a Bachelor of Academic Law and an LLB. He founded an NGO called Arise India, which works in the area of school education.