BJP's Firebrand Leader Bandi Sanjay Moves From RSS to Union Cabinet
NDTV
PM Modi Oath-Taking Ceremony live: As the BJP national general secretary, Bandi Sanjay Kumar retained the Karimnagar Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana with a massive margin of over 2.25 lakh votes in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls.
Bandi Sanjay Kumar, who took oath as minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet today, had weathered political storms and intra-party bickering before he could successfully establish himself as a firebrand BJP leader in Telangana.
The foundation for Mr Kumar's political rise could be traced to his days of student politics in the Akhil Bhaaratiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the students' wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh – the ideological mentor of the BJP -- with which he was associated since his childhood.
His grooming in the right-wing outfit provided him an ideological launchpad and he gradually became popular as an aggressive leader.
