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Tejasvi Surya
Lakya Suryanarayana Tejasvi Surya (Kannada pronunciation: [t̪eːdʒɐsʋi suːɾja]; born 16 November 1990) is an Indian politician, RSS swayamsevak and lawyer serving as the Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party, representing the Bangalore South constituency. He is also the president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha since 26 September 2020.
Lakya Suryanarayana Tejasvi Surya was born on 16 November 1990 in Bangalore, Karnataka. He is the son of the former Joint Commissioner of Excise, L. A. Suryanarayana, and Rama, his mother. His uncle is the three-time MLA from Basavanagudi constituency, L. A. Ravi Subramanya.
At the age of 9, Surya sold his paintings and donated the proceedings to the Army's Kargil fund while studying at the St. Paul's High School, Belgaum. In 2001, while studying at the Sri Kumaran Children's Home, Thyagarajanagar, he received the National Balashree Honour for Creative Scientific Innovation. He later graduated from Bangalore Institute of Legal Studies with a Bachelor of Academic Law and an LLB.
Surya is trained in Carnatic music. In 2008, he founded the NGO, Arise India, dedicated to school education initiatives. He has previously written for IndiaFacts.
In 2024, he became the first Indian public representative to complete the Ironman challenge.
He is married to Chennai-based classical singer, dancer and YouTuber Sivasri Skandaprasad, who is known for rendition of various scores including Kannada version of songs of Ponniyin Selvan Part 2. They got married on 6 March 2025.
Surya was an active member of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and was even the General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). He had actively contributed to the Bharatiya Janata Party campaign for the 2014 Indian general election and in 2017 he helped organise the BJP's 'Mangalore Chalo' rally. He then led the Digital Communications Team of Karnataka BJP during the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election. As a lawyer, he has represented many BJP leaders like Mahesh Hegde (editor of Post-Card News), Pratap Simha (MP from Mysore) and assisted senior advocate Ashok Haranhalli in defending B.S. Yeddyurappa against corruption cases. 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, Surya maintains that his politics was never connected and remains unconnected with his uncle's.
The Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency was represented since 1996 by former minister Ananth Kumar until his death in 2018. Tejasvi Surya was chosen to contest for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from this constituency over Kumar's wife, Tejaswini Ananth Kumar. While she initially had the support of BJP Karnataka state president B.S. Yeddyurappa, senior BJP and RSS leader B.L. Santosh convinced the party's leadership to choose Surya. He, subsequently, defeated INC candidate B. K. Hariprasad by 331,192 votes, becoming the youngest MP in the BJP at the age of 28 years, 6 months, 7 days.
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Tejasvi Surya
Lakya Suryanarayana Tejasvi Surya (Kannada pronunciation: [t̪eːdʒɐsʋi suːɾja]; born 16 November 1990) is an Indian politician, RSS swayamsevak and lawyer serving as the Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party, representing the Bangalore South constituency. He is also the president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha since 26 September 2020.
Lakya Suryanarayana Tejasvi Surya was born on 16 November 1990 in Bangalore, Karnataka. He is the son of the former Joint Commissioner of Excise, L. A. Suryanarayana, and Rama, his mother. His uncle is the three-time MLA from Basavanagudi constituency, L. A. Ravi Subramanya.
At the age of 9, Surya sold his paintings and donated the proceedings to the Army's Kargil fund while studying at the St. Paul's High School, Belgaum. In 2001, while studying at the Sri Kumaran Children's Home, Thyagarajanagar, he received the National Balashree Honour for Creative Scientific Innovation. He later graduated from Bangalore Institute of Legal Studies with a Bachelor of Academic Law and an LLB.
Surya is trained in Carnatic music. In 2008, he founded the NGO, Arise India, dedicated to school education initiatives. He has previously written for IndiaFacts.
In 2024, he became the first Indian public representative to complete the Ironman challenge.
He is married to Chennai-based classical singer, dancer and YouTuber Sivasri Skandaprasad, who is known for rendition of various scores including Kannada version of songs of Ponniyin Selvan Part 2. They got married on 6 March 2025.
Surya was an active member of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and was even the General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). He had actively contributed to the Bharatiya Janata Party campaign for the 2014 Indian general election and in 2017 he helped organise the BJP's 'Mangalore Chalo' rally. He then led the Digital Communications Team of Karnataka BJP during the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election. As a lawyer, he has represented many BJP leaders like Mahesh Hegde (editor of Post-Card News), Pratap Simha (MP from Mysore) and assisted senior advocate Ashok Haranhalli in defending B.S. Yeddyurappa against corruption cases. 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, Surya maintains that his politics was never connected and remains unconnected with his uncle's.
The Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency was represented since 1996 by former minister Ananth Kumar until his death in 2018. Tejasvi Surya was chosen to contest for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from this constituency over Kumar's wife, Tejaswini Ananth Kumar. While she initially had the support of BJP Karnataka state president B.S. Yeddyurappa, senior BJP and RSS leader B.L. Santosh convinced the party's leadership to choose Surya. He, subsequently, defeated INC candidate B. K. Hariprasad by 331,192 votes, becoming the youngest MP in the BJP at the age of 28 years, 6 months, 7 days.