Unbridled faith in RSS teachings takes Tejasvi to new heights in politics

By N.B. Hombal Bengaluru, Jan 10 : Lakya Suryanarayana Tejasvi, better known as Tejasvi Surya, who is presently heading the ruling BJPs youth wing Bharatiya Yuva Morcha, is no novice in politics as from a very young age he had developed a taste for electioneering.
Surya won his maiden Lok Sabha election from the Bengaluru South parliamentary constituency in 2019 at the age 28. He became the party’s national youth wing president at the age of 29. His rise in politics has been phenomenal so far. His fiery speeches during elections have endeared his hardcore Hindutva followers. His campaign in West Bengal and Hyderabad are cases in point.
Since 1991, Bengaluru South has always been a BJP bastion. Late Ananth Kumar, the former Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilisers and Parliamentary Affairs, was a sitting MP from the constituency for 22 years – from 1996 till his death in 2018. Before him, BJP’s K.V. Gowda won the 1991 parliamentary election from the same seat, becoming Bengaluru South’s first BJP MP.
When IANS sought to know about Surya’s rise in politics in such a short span of time, a senior RSS worker who had seen him growing, said that Surya took his school elections very seriously when he fought his first election for the post of an assistant head boy in Class VII.
“Surya emerged victorious as he was the only one who took the campaign seriously – he printed pamphlets, did powerpoint presentations in the auditorium, and even had his own symbol, a lion,” the RSS leader stated.
Besides this, he also groomed himself in RSS shakha and imbibed everything it taught him.