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March 19, 1998

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Second-timer makes it to Cabinet

A national secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Anant Kumar, the MP from Bangalore South in Karnataka, plunged into politics while a student. He has participated in various student movements, including the Save Assam movement.

Born on July 22, 1959, Kumar also participated in the Jayaprakash Narayan movement during the Emergency between 1975 and 1977, and was jailed for some time.

Kumar was a part of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's drought relief committee in the state.

Right from his student days, Kumar had been an office-bearer both of the national and state organisations of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad.

He also conducted various training programmes for party workers at the national and state levels.

He was general secretary of the state BJP between 1988 and 1995.

A widely travelled man, he was the first Indian member of the drafting committee of the UNESCO conference held in Paris.

Kumar first made it to the Lok Sabha in the 1996 election from Bangalore South.

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