32 Facts About Tejasvi Surya

Tejasvi Surya is 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.

Tejasvi Surya is the son of the former Joint Commissioner of Excise, L A Suryanarayana, and Rama, his mother.

Tejasvi Surya's 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.

Tejasvi Surya later graduated from Bangalore Institute of Legal Studies with a Bachelor of Academic Law and an LLB.

Tejasvi Surya 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.

Tejasvi Surya was an active member of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and was even the General Secretary of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha.

Tejasvi Surya 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.

Tejasvi Surya then led the Digital Communications Team of Karnataka BJP during the 2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election.

Tejasvi Surya has been mentored by R Ashoka and V Somanna.

Tejasvi Surya was chosen to contest for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from this constituency over Kumar's wife, Tejaswini Ananth Kumar.

Tejasvi Surya took the MP's oath in Kannada on 17 June 2019.

Tejasvi Surya sought to know whether the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare would ban electronic nicotine delivery systems, including e-cigarettes.

In October 2019, Tejasvi Surya expressed his concern over the short term of the city's Mayor.

Tejasvi Surya urged the Chief Minister of Karnataka to draft and pass a bespoke legislation for Bangalore, the Nava Bengaluru Act, to replace the Karnataka Municipalities Act, 1975.

Tejasvi Surya then claimed he lacked any authority to solve the problem.

Tejasvi Surya revamped 4 hospitals through MP Local Area Development Scheme funds, adding over 350 ICU beds at a time of severe shortage and facilitating the purchase of 2 mobile healthcare units.

Tejasvi Surya has been pushing to expedite the approvals for Phase 3 of Namma Metro.

Tejasvi Surya campaigned for prompt completion of the Yellow Metro Line from RV Road to Bommasandra, and the operationalisation of the Purple Line.

Tejasvi Surya helped BMTC secure approval for 1,500 electric buses to improve public transportation.

Tejasvi Surya contributed significantly to amending the DICGC Act and represented the interests of the distressed Guru Raghavendra Bank depositors during moratorium.

Tejasvi Surya has led delegations to address startup concerns and organised ministerial interactions to encourage Bengaluru's startup ecosystem, currently spanning over 24,000 startups.

SBI, subsequently, launched India's first dedicated startup branch in Koramangala, Tejasvi Surya's constituency, offering comprehensive services from startup formation to Initial Public Offerings.

In March 2024, Tejasvi Surya was announced as the BJP candidate for the Bangalore South constituency in the 2024 general elections.

Tejasvi Surya was booked under the section 123 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.

Tejasvi Surya is a vocal critic of socialism and "Nehruvian Socialism".

Tejasvi Surya attributed the Citizenship Amendment Act protests to be led by 'uneducated, illiterate, and puncture-wallahs'.

Tejasvi Surya had previously said "If you are with Narendra Modi, you are with India", and claimed that those who did not support Modi were "strengthening anti-India forces".

In 2019, the Indian National Congress, an Indian political party, shared screenshots of tweets posted by a woman who alleged that Tejasvi Surya had abused her.

The Commission later dropped the case at the request of the woman in question, who wrote that she and Tejasvi Surya were "good friends" and that the complaint against him by the Congress was "politically motivated".

Tejasvi Surya was criticised for reading out the names of only 17 out of the 204 employees in BBMP's COVID war room; all the employees he named were Muslim and Surya was accused of communalising the issue.