Chennai, September 1
BJP leader Tamilisai Soundararajan, who has been appointed Telangana Governor, is the daughter of Congress veteran Kumari Ananthan who was recently detained, along with other Congress leaders, while taking part in a protest against former Union minister P Chidambaram’s arrest by the CBI in the INX Media case.
Besides her father, her uncle H Vasanth Kumar is also a Congress Lok Sabha member, but Soundararajan was attracted to the ideology of the BJP.
A doctor by profession, Soundararajan said she had to choose between her father’s and her own path. “Today my father will be happy for my decision,” she added.
Soundararajan (58), Tamil Nadu unit president of the BJP since 2014, has been instrumental in taking the BJP membership to 44.5 lakh in the state. She lost the Thoothukudi Lok Sabha seat in the 2019 General Election to DMK’s M Kanimozhi.
She was a student leader while doing her MBBS course at the Madras Medical College here. Specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, she started her career as a gynaecologist.
Soundararajan, whose husband is also a doctor, forayed into full-time politics by joining the BJP and held various positions starting from South Chennai District Medical Wing Secretary in 1999. She never looked back since then and become the party’s state president in 2014. — PTI\
Led membership drive
- Tamilisai Soundararajan has been BJP Tamil Nadu unit president since 2014
- She has been instrumental in taking the saffron party’s membership to 44.5 lakh in the state
- In the 2019 General Election, she had lost the Thoothukudi Lok Sabha seat to DMK’s M Kanimozhi
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