1. Prathap Simha was born on 21 June 1976 and is an Indian journalist and politician who was a Member of Parliament for Mysore from 2014 to 2024, as well as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
17 Facts About Pratap Simha
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Pratap Simha was first elected in 2014 to the 16th assembly of Parliament with over 5 lakh votes.
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Pratap Simha was again voted in 2019 to the 17th assembly with a similar share, defeating his next opponent from the Indian National Congress with a margin of 1.39 lakh votes.
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Pratap Simha is the first candidate in the history of the constituency to have secured more than 5 lakh votes, until Yaduveer Wadiyar won with almost 8 lakhs in 2024.
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Pratap Simha holds a master's degree in communication and journalism from Mangalore University.
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Pratap Simha joined the Kannada-language newspaper Vijaya Karnataka in 1999 as a trainee.
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Pratap Simha was later elevated as the editor and functioned under senior editor Vishweshwar Bhat during the time.
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Pratap Simha wrote his column under the title Bettale Jagattu espousing Hindutva and being fiercely critical of anybody opposing it.
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In June 2015, Pratap Simha was appointed as a member of the Press Council of India.
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Pratap Simha was a vocal against government of Karnataka's birthday celebrations of Tipu Sultan starting 2015.
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Pratap Simha voiced that Sultan could be a "role model only for Islamists" and that the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah was "encouraging Jihadists" in the State.
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In 2017, against this backdrop, and police's prohibitory orders against taking procession of Hanuman Jayanti's organizers in Hunsur, a town in his constituency, Pratap Simha was arrested after he violated the prohibitory orders.
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In February 2017, Pratap Simha received criticism after he compared Gurmehar Kaur to Dawood Ibrahim.
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Pratap Simha was a student of Delhi University who spoke against the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, a student body affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
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Pratap Simha had tweeted, "Being sad due to son's death, having left your wife and ran behind a dancer, Mr Raj, do you have any right to say anything to Yogi, Modi".
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Pratap Simha was sent a legal notice to by Raj calling for an unconditional public apology, and that failing which he would "press criminal charges" against him.
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The opposition demanded strict action against Pratap Simha and compared it to opposition Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra's suspension.