Ananth Kumar
| H. N. Ananth Kumar | |
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| Minister of Parliamentary Affairs | |
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Assumed office 5 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Venkaiah Naidu |
| Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers | |
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Assumed office 26 May 2014 |
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| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | Srikant Kumar Jena |
| Member of the Indian Parliament for Bangalore South |
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Assumed office 1996 |
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| Preceded by | K. Venkatagiri Gowda |
| Minister of Civil Aviation | |
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In office 19 March 1998 – 13 October 1999 |
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| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Preceded by | Chand Mahal Ibrahim |
| Succeeded by | Sharad Yadav |
| Personal details | |
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22 July 1959 Bengaluru, India |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse(s) | Tejaswini |
| Children | 2 daughters |
| Alma mater | Karnataka University |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Website | ananth |
H. N. Ananth Kumar (born 22 July 1959) is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. Since 1996 he has represented Bangalore South constituency in the Lok Sabha. Ananth Kumar has served as Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers since May 2014 and as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs since July 2016 in the Narendra Modi government.
Having been influenced by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, he was a member of its student wing, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. During the Emergency, he was imprisoned along with thousands of other student activists by the Indira Gandhi government. He was elected as the State Secretary of the ABVP and later, became its National Secretary in 1985. He later joined BJP and was nominated as the State President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha. He was then made National Secretary of the party in 1996.
He was elected from Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency to the 11th Lok Sabha in 1996. In 1998 he was re-elected and was inducted into the Union Cabinet headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the Minister for Civil Aviation. In 1999, he was re-elected to a 3rd Consecutive term and became a cabinet minister in the National Democratic Alliance government. He handled various ministries like Tourism, Sports & Youth Affairs, Culture, Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation.
He became the President of the Karnataka state unit of BJP in 2003 and led the state unit which became the single largest party in the Legislative Assembly and won the highest number of Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka in 2004. In 2004, he was appointed National General Secretary of the BJP and has held that post ever since.
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